Download or read book Duels and Duelling written by Stephen Banks and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-09-20 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A duel could result from any challenge to a gentleman's honour, from minor insult to major accusation. At a prearranged time, two men at odds would meet, armed either with swords or pistols, to engage in a formal and sometimes fatal exchange. Gentlemen considered it their prerogative to fight, despite the illegality of duelling, and figures as prominent as the Duke of Wellington and Georges Clemenceau defended their honour in this way. Why did participants flout the law, what codes were followed, what were the changing roles of the seconds, and what were the consequences for victims and victors? Stephen Banks answers these questions and examines the evolution from Norman trials-by-combat to the formalised duel, analysing the custom's decline in England by Victorian times and its final disppearance from Europe by the twentieth century.
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 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 Romance of Duelling in All Times and Countries written by Andrew Steinmetz and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Notes on Duels and Duelling Third edition written by Lorenzo SABINE and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Book of Duels written by Michael Garriga and published by Milkweed Editions. This book was released on 2014-03-17 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fierce, searing, and darkly comical, Garriga's debut collection of short-short fiction depicts historical and imagined duels, re-envisioning in a flash the competing points of motivation—courage and cowardice, honor and vengeance—that lead individuals to risk it all. In this compact collection, “settling the score” provides a fascinating apparatus for exploring foundational civilizing ideas. Notions of courage, cowardice, and revenge course through Michael Garriga’s flash fiction pieces, each one of which captures a duel’s decisive moment from three distinct perspectives: opposing accounts from the individual duelists, followed by the third account of a witness. In razor-honed language, the voices of the duelists take center stage, training a spotlight on the litany of misguided beliefs and perceptions that lead individuals into such conflicts. From Cain and Abel to Andrew Jackson and Charles Dickenson; from John Henry and the steam drill to an alcoholic fighting the bottle: the cumulative effect of these powerful pieces is a probing and disconcerting look at humankind’s long-held notions of pride, honor, vengeance, and satisfaction. Meticulously crafted by Garriga, and with stunning illustrations by Tynan Kerr, The Book of Duels is a unique and remarkable debut.
Download or read book Notes on Duels and Duelling written by Lorenzo Sabine and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 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 Art of Duelling written by Art and published by . This book was released on 1836 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Notes on Duels and Duelling written by Lorenzo Sabine and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gentlemen s Blood written by Barbara Holland and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-12-13 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Never, never, did I imagine that dueling could be so enthralling, outrageous, gruesome, tragic, and, yes, ridiculous...Lively humor and sparkling prose." -Wall Street Journal The medieval justice of trial by combat evolved into the private duel by sword and pistol, with thousands of honorable men-and not-so-honorable women-giving lives and limbs to wipe out an insult or prove a point. The duel was essential to private, public, and political life, and those who followed the elaborate codes of procedure were seldom prosecuted and rarely convicted-for, in fact, they were obeying a grand old tradition. Based on her fascinating 1997 Smithsonian article, Barbara Holland's Gentlemen's Blood is the first trade book to trace the remarkable, often gruesome, sometimes comical history of the Western tradition of defending one's honor.
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 Notes on Duels and Duelling Alphabetically Arranged written by Lorenzo Sabine and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Notes on Duels and Duelling written by Lorenzo Sabine and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Notes on Duels and Duelling: Alphabetically Arranged, With a Preliminary Historical Essay This page - the last to be written - is the author's own. Here he may speak to his reader without restraint, and, if he will, as to a friend. The writer, in availing himself of the privilege accorded to all, would remark, in the first place, that whoever opens this volume in the expectation of finding mention of every challenge given and of every duel fought, in the United States or elsewhere, will be disappointed. The work, in its claims as a record, is sufficiently moderate. Bred to active business, and employed nearly the whole of his life in commercial or kindred pursuits, the author's leisure hours only have been devoted to books. In order to make them most of these hours, the plan of taking and filing away for us, as occasion might admit, memoranda of incidents and facts of interest, was adopted in early youth, and has been continued until the present moment. These Notes are, then, simply the results of common and every-day reading, observations, and conversation, for a series of years, in this particular direction. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Duelling Stories of the Sixteenth Century from the French of Brant me written by Pierre de Bourdeille Brantôme (seigneur de) and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
