Le Duel entre justice des hommes et justice de Dieu

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

Extent: 259 pages

Publisher: Wiley-VCH

Series: Esprit des Lois, Esprit des Lettres

Language: French

Hardback (Published)

(July 2013)

ISBN: 9782812408885

5.94 x 8.66 inches

Price: $79.00

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 the agôn.