The duel in early modern England : civility, politeness, and honour / / Markku Peltonen

• Autore: Peltonen Markku
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2003
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (x, 355 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 394.8/0942
• Soggetto topico: Dueling - England - History - 16th century; Dueling - England - History - 17th century
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 312-346) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 1. rise of civil courtesy and the duelling theory in Elizabethan and early Stuart England -- ; 2. Jacobean anti-duelling campaign -- ; 3. Duelling, civility and honour in Restoration and Augustan England -- ; 4. Anti-duelling campaigns 1660-1720 -- ; 5. Politeness, duelling and honour in Bernard Mandeville.
• Sommario/riassunto: Arguments about the place and practice of the duel in early modern England were widespread. The distinguished intellectual historian Markku Peltonen examines this debate, and show how the moral and ideological status of duelling was discussed within a much larger cultural context of courtesy, civility and politeness. The advocates of the duel, following Italian and French examples, contended that it maintained and enhanced politeness; its critics by contrast increasingly severed duelling from civility, and this separation became part of a vigorous attempt in the late seventeenth century and beyond to redefine civility, politeness and indeed the nature and evolution of Englishness. To understand the duel is to understand much more fully some crucial issues in the cultural and ideological history of Stuart England, and Markku Peltonen's study will thus engage the attention of a very wide audience of historians and cultural and literary scholars.
• Titolo autorizzato: The duel in early modern England
• ISBN: 1-107-13622-9; 1-280-43078-8; 0-511-17908-1; 1-139-14887-7; 0-511-06175-7; 0-511-05542-0; 0-511-33069-3; 0-511-49065-8; 0-511-07021-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910812318403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Ideas in context ; ; 65.