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Download or read book The Last Duel written by Eric Jager and published by Crown. This book was released on 2005-09-13 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE • “A taut page-turner with all the hallmarks of a good historical thriller.”—Orlando Sentinel The gripping true story of the duel to end all duels in medieval France as a resolute knight defends his wife’s honor against the man she accuses of a heinous crime In the midst of the devastating Hundred Years’ War between France and England, Jean de Carrouges, a Norman knight fresh from combat in Scotland, returns home to yet another deadly threat. His wife, Marguerite, has accused squire Jacques Le Gris of rape. A deadlocked court decrees a trial by combat between the two men that will also leave Marguerite’s fate in the balance. For if her husband loses the duel, she will be put to death as a false accuser. While enemy troops pillage the land, and rebellion and plague threaten the lives of all, Carrouges and Le Gris meet in full armor on a walled field in Paris. What follows is the final duel ever authorized by the Parlement of Paris, a fierce fight with lance, sword, and dagger before a massive crowd that includes the teenage King Charles VI, during which both combatants are wounded—but only one fatally. Based on extensive research in Normandy and Paris, The Last Duel brings to life a colorful, turbulent age and three unforgettable characters caught in a fatal triangle of crime, scandal, and revenge. The Last Duel is at once a moving human drama, a captivating true crime story, and an engrossing work of historical intrigue with themes that echo powerfully centuries later.
Download or read book Touché 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.
Book Synopsis The Duel in Early Modern England by : Markku Peltonen
Download or read book The Duel in Early Modern England written by Markku Peltonen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-01-30 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Librorum impressorum qui in Museo britannico adservantur catalogus by : British Museum. Department of Printed Books
Download or read book Librorum impressorum qui in Museo britannico adservantur catalogus written by British Museum. Department of Printed Books and published by . This book was released on 1814 with total page 1110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Guardian by : John Calhoun Stephens
Download or read book The Guardian written by John Calhoun Stephens and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-10-17 with total page 834 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1713, soon after publication of the Spectator had come to an end, its place on breakfast tables of Queen Anne's London was taken by the Guardian. Richard Steele, continuing in the new paper the blend of learning, wit, and moral instruction that had proved so attractive in the Tatler and Spectator, was the editor and principal writer; in the 175 numbers of the Guardian he included 53 essays by Joseph Addison, as well as contributions by Alexander Pope, George Berkeley, and several others, some of whom doubtless transmitted their papers through the famous lion's head letterbox that Addison had erected in Button's coffeehouse. "These papers," as John C. Stephens writes in the introduction to his edition of the Guardian, "helped to form and to shape the morals and manners of countless generations in Britain and abroad." This first modern edition of the Guardian was prepared from the original printing of the papers, is fully annotated and indexed, and includes a comprehensive introduction discussing especially the authorship of the individual essays.
Book Synopsis Catalogus Librorum Impressorum Bibliothecae Bodleianae in Academia Oxoniensi by : Bodleian Library
Download or read book Catalogus Librorum Impressorum Bibliothecae Bodleianae in Academia Oxoniensi written by Bodleian Library and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 854 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Thoughts on Duelling, and Its Abolition by :
Download or read book Thoughts on Duelling, and Its Abolition written by and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Catalogue of the Books of the Right Honourable Charles Viscount Bruce, of Ampthill ... in his library at Totenham in the county of Wiltes by : Charles BRUCE (4th Earl of Elgin and 3rd Earl of Ailesbury.)
Download or read book A Catalogue of the Books of the Right Honourable Charles Viscount Bruce, of Ampthill ... in his library at Totenham in the county of Wiltes written by Charles BRUCE (4th Earl of Elgin and 3rd Earl of Ailesbury.) and published by . This book was released on 1733 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Catalogue of Printed Books by : British Museum. Department of Printed Books
Download or read book Catalogue of Printed Books written by British Museum. Department of Printed Books and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Defoe De-Attributions by : Philip Nicholas Furbank
Download or read book Defoe De-Attributions written by Philip Nicholas Furbank and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daniel Defoe was one of the most important and best-known writers of the eighteenth century but there is a feeling among scholars that the Defoe 'canon' is a remarkably strange and not very satisfactory construction. Between 1790, when the first bibliography of Defoe appeared, and 1971, when J.R. Moore published the second edition of his Checklist, the canon had swollen from just over a hundred items to 570. A large proportion of these attributions had been made in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, on the basis of features of style, 'favourite phrases' and resemblance to Defoe's known views. This book is a list of all the items in Moore's Checklist (the current authority on the Defoe canon) that at present the authors consider questionable with in each case a note as to who was the first attributer, a brief synopsis and an explanation of the reasons for doubting the ascription.
Book Synopsis Catalogus Librorum Impressorum Bibliothecae Bodleianae in Academia Oxoniensi B. Bandinel by :
Download or read book Catalogus Librorum Impressorum Bibliothecae Bodleianae in Academia Oxoniensi B. Bandinel written by and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 938 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Catalogue of the [first](-seventh) portion of the ... library of Thomas Jolley ... which will be sold by auction by : Thomas Jolley
Download or read book Catalogue of the [first](-seventh) portion of the ... library of Thomas Jolley ... which will be sold by auction written by Thomas Jolley and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The History of Duelling by : John Gideon Millingen
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:
Book Synopsis Old and New Paris: Its History, Its People, and Its Places, v. 1 by : Henry Edwards
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Book Synopsis The History of Duelling, Including Narratives of the Most Remarkable Personal Encounters, Etc by : John Gideon MILLINGEN
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:
Book Synopsis Masculinity and Male Codes of Honor in Modern France by : Robert A. Nye
Download or read book Masculinity and Male Codes of Honor in Modern France written by Robert A. Nye and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1998-11-30 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study of upper-class masculinity from the end of the ancien régime in 1789 to the end of World War I, Robert Nye argues that manhood, masculinity, and male sexuality is, like femininity, a cultural construct, comprising a strict set of heroic ideals and codes of honor which few men have been able to realize in practice. In doing so, Nye destabilizes and historicizes the male body, and incorporates gender into the brand of cultural history inaugurated by Norbert Elias in the 1930s.
Download or read book The Tatler written by and published by . This book was released on 1831 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spec. Coll.
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