Download or read book Dueling in the Old South written by Jack Kenny Williams and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This history of the social custom of pistol dueling in the antebellum South documents the rules for its conduct, its causes, and its typical participants. Also included is a popular dueling code from the year 1838 by John Lyde Wilson, one-time governer of South Carolina.--From publisher description.
Download or read book The Duelling Handbook 1829 written by Joseph Hamilton and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-07-12 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1829 manual offered advice on everything from withdrawal of challenges to weapons. Dramatic anecdotes recount duels arising from disagreements over religion, women, gambling, and other volatile subjects.
Download or read book Pistols at Dawn written by Richard Hopton and published by Little Brown GBR. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the gross and unjustifiable insults you have offered me both as a soldier and a gentleman, I conclude you must be prepared to give me that satisfaction I am entitled to. I am therefore to request that you will name a place and hour of meeting.' So runs a typical challenge to a duel from the early 19th century; formal, polite - and potentially fatal. Duelling is deeply imbedded in our collective consciousness, through numerous films and novels; it evokes a golden past, of gentlemen defending their honour (or that of their wives) in the early morning light of a wooded glade; of frockcoats, rapiers and pistols. From the duel's roots in medieval chivalric tournaments, to the unforgiving code of honour in which death was preferable to shame, this fascinating history recounts - with the aid of numerous vivid eye-witness accounts - all the drama and sheer terror of the duel.
Download or read book Duelling with the Past written by Peter Verbist and published by Brepols Publishers. This book was released on 2010 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: towards intellectual autonomy. In Duelling with the Past, Verbist's analysis explores the links between computistical sources and the 'emergence' of the individual in the Middle Ages." --Book Jacket.
Download or read book Touch written by John Leigh and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2015-06-08 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of the West’s best writers fought in duels or wrote about them, seduced by glamour or risk or recklessness. A gift as a plot device, the duel also offered a way to discover how we face fears of humiliation, pain, and death. John Leigh’s literary history of the duel illuminates these and other tensions attending the birth of the modern world.
Download or read book The History of Duelling written by John Gideon Millingen and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pistols at Dawn written by Richard Hopton and published by Piatkus Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Duelling is embedded in our collective consciousness, through numerous films and books. This book traces the history of the duel from its medieval antecedents in trial by combat and chivalric tournaments. Using numerous accounts of actual duels, it shows how the arcane rules of the duel evolved.
Download or read book The Duel in European History written by Victor Kiernan and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2016-07-15 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries, duelling played an integral role in the preservation of the aristocratic order in Europe, defying attempts by both church and state to ban the practice. Moreover, the romance and drama of the duel has made it an enduring fixture in films, literature, and the theatre. In The Duel in European History, renowned historian Victor Kiernan writes with his characteristic wit and insight of duelling's evolution from its medieval origins – when it was regarded as a badge of rank - to the early twentieth century, by which time it was seen as an irrational anachronism. In doing so, he shows how the duelling tradition was something unique to Europe and its colonies, and, in its contribution to the development of the officer corps, played a key part in shaping European military power. Drawing on a vast range of historical and cultural sources, this is the definitive account of a violent ritual that continues to fascinate even today.
Download or read book The History of Duelling written by John Gideon Millingen and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of Duelling written by Anne Pierre Coustard de Massi and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The History of Duelling Including Narratives of the Most Remarkable Personal Encounters Etc written by John Gideon MILLINGEN and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The History of Duelling written by John Gideon Millingen and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The History of Duelling written by J. G. Millingen and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-13 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The History of Duelling in two volumes is a historical work by British author J. G. Millingen. In this chronological account, author deals with the custom and tradition of duels from the dark age of civilization to the closest examples in modern age. Concerning the dueling among the ancients, author offers examples of Achilles fighting Hector, Turnus and Aeneas and other examples from Greek and Roman history. However, he makes a distinction between these legendary combat duels and later personal duels which were prompted by different causes and reasons. Religion and love are emphasized as two main triggers that caused numerous duels throughout the history. Due to sources and documents, the book mostly deals with duels in France and Britain, but also covers this practice and tradition in other European parts and countries.
Download or read book The History of Duelling Including Narratives of the Most Remarkable Personal Encounters Etc written by John Gideon MILLINGEN and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The History of Duelling in two volumes Vol I written by John Gideon Millingen and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-08-06 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: The History of Duelling (in two volumes) Vol I by John Gideon Millingen
