7. Soldiers and Gentlemen: The Rise of the Duel in Renaissance Italy

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. ARTICLES
4. 1. Literature as Essential Evidence for Understanding Chivalry 1
5. 2. The Battle of Hattin: A Chronicle of a Defeat Foretold? 16
6. 3. Hybrid or Counterpoise? A Study of Transitional Trebuchets 33
7. 4. The Struggle between the Nicean Empire and the Bulgarian State (1254–1256):Towards a Revival of Byzantine Military Tactics under Theodore II Laskaris 56
8. 5 A “Clock-and-Bow” Story: Late Medieval Technology from Monastic Evidence 70
9. 6. The Strength of Lancastrian Loyalism during the Readeption: Gentry Participation at the Battle of Tewkesbury 84
10. 7. Soldiers and Gentlemen: The Rise of the Duel in Renaissance Italy 99
11. DEBATE
12. “A Lying Legacy” Revisited: The Abels–Morillo Defense of Discontinuity 153