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The Code Of Honor—A Duel in the Bois De Boulogne, Near Paris, wood-engraving after Godefroy Durand, Harper's Weekly (January 1875)
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. Fencing and shooting continued to coexist throughout the 19th century.
The duel was based on a code of honor. Duels were fought not to kill the opponent but to gain "satisfaction", that is, to restore one's honor by demonstrating a willingness to risk one's life for it. As such, the tradition of dueling was reserved for the male members of nobility; however, in the modern era, it extended to those of the upper classes. On occasion, duels with swords or pistols were fought between women.[1][2]
Legislation against dueling dates back to the medieval period. The Fourth Council of the Lateran (1215) outlawed duels[3] and civil legislation in the Holy Roman Empire against dueling was passed in the wake of the Thirty Years' War.[4]
From the early 17th century, duels became illegal in the countries where they were practiced. Dueling largely fell out of favour in England by the mid-19th century and in Continental Europe by the turn of the 20th century. Dueling declined in the Eastern United States in the 19th century and by the time of the American Civil War, dueling had begun to wane even in the
South.[5] Public opinion, not legislation, caused the change.[5] Research has linked the decline of dueling to increases in state capacity.[6]
^Hopton, p.182
^Hopton, pp.173-174
^IV Lateran c. 18, Peter R. Coss, The Moral World of the Law, Cambridge University Press, 2000, p. 78
^Cite error: The named reference Liszt was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ abThe History of Dueling in America PBS. Retrieved February 8, 2014
^Jensen, Jeffrey L.; Ramey, Adam J. (2020-06-09). "Going postal: State capacity and violent dispute resolution". Journal of Comparative Economics. 48 (4): 779–796. doi:10.1016/j.jce.2020.05.007. ISSN 0147-5967. S2CID 226195079.
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