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The Duel: A history of duelling by Robert Baldrick; Banks, Stephen. A Polite Exchange of Bullets; The Duel and the English Gentleman, 1750–1850, (Woodbridge: Boydell 2010) Banks, Stephen. "Very little law in the case: Contests of Honour and the Subversion of the English Criminal Courts, 1780–1845" (2008) 19(3) King's Law Journal 575–594.
A duel is an arranged engagement in combat between two people with matched weapons. During the 17th and 18th centuries (and earlier), duels were mostly single combats fought with swords (the rapier and later the small sword), but beginning in the late 18th century in England, duels were more commonly fought using pistols.
The Fourth Lateran Council of 1215 deprecated judicial duels, and Pope Honorius III in 1216 asked the Teutonic Order to cease its imposition of judicial duels on their newly converted subjects in Livonia. For the following three centuries, there was latent tension between the traditional regional laws and Roman law.
James Alexander Seton, the last British person to die in a duel in the United Kingdom – 1845; John Hampden Pleasants, American newspaper editor – 1846 [41] Edward Gilbert, U.S. newspaper editor, by James W. Denver near Sacramento – 1852 [42] Frédéric Constant Cournet, French revolutionary.
A satirical print of the duel by Charles Williams. The reaction to the duel was mixed. A general attitude was of amusement, with one commentator suggesting "never did two men meet more ignorant of the use of their weapons". [7] Notable amongst this was a cartoon by the satirist James Gillray. [8] Others took the bloodless duel more seriously.
The name Wogdon became synonymous with dueling, to the extent that duels in England were sometimes referred to as "a Wogdon affair". Wogdon had apprenticed to the Irish gunmaker Edward Norton in Lincolnshire. [3] [4] Wogdon formed a partnership in 1794 with John Barton, after which their pistols were signed Wogdon and Barton. Wogdon retired in ...
A code duello is a set of rules for a one-on-one combat, or duel.Codes duello regulate dueling and thus help prevent vendettas between families and other social factions. . They ensure that non-violent means of reaching agreement are exhausted and that harm is reduced, both by limiting the terms of engagement and by providing medical c
The Duel in European History: Honour and the Reign of Aristocracy. Oxford, Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-285128-4; Stater, Victor (1999). Duke Hamilton Is Dead!: A Story of Aristocratic Life and Death in Stuart Britain. New York, Hill & Wang, ISBN 0-8090-4033-6. Stater, Victor (1999). High Life, Low Morals: The Duel that Shook Stuart Society.