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Touché: The Duel in Literature
Touch The Duel in Literature
Author: John Leigh
The monarchs of seventeenth-century Europe put a surprisingly high priority on the abolition of dueling, seeing its eradication as an important step from barbarism toward a rational state monopoly on justice. But it was one thing to ban dueling and another to stop it. Duelists continued to kill each other with swords or pistols in significant nu...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780674504387
ISBN-10: 0674504380
Publication Date: 6/8/2015
Pages: 352
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Publisher: Harvard University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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