Le Duel entre justice des hommes et justice de Dieu

edited by Denis Bjai and Myriam White-Le Goff

Book cover: Le Duel entre justice des hommes et justice de Dieu

Extent: 259 pages

Publisher: Classiques Garnier

Subjects: Early Modern & Renaissance Studies, Medieval Studies

Series: Esprit des Lois, Esprit des Lettres

Series volume number: 3

Language: French

Paperback (Published)

(July 2013)

ISBN: 9782812408878

5.94 x 8.66 inches

Price: $45.00

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This work studies the duel in the Middle Ages and Renaissance by analysing its codifications, its literary representations, and some famous combats. If its practice was the source of legal, political, and religious tensions, literature laid claim to it in the aestheticised form of theagon.

  • Volume editor Denis Bjaï
  • Volume editor Myriam White-Le Goff
  • Series edited by Bruno Méniel