Lloyd Bowen

Anatomy of a Duel in Jacobean England (eBook, ePUB)

Gentry Honour, Violence and the Law

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Throws much new light on questions of gentry honour, the nature and prevalence of early modern elite violence, and the process of judicial investigation in Shakespeare's England

This book offers an analysis of Jacobean duelling and gentry honour culture through the close examination and contextualisation of the most fully documented duel of the early modern era. This was the fatal encounter between a Flintshire gentleman, Edward Morgan, and his Cheshire antagonist, John Egerton, which took place at Highgate on 21 April 1610. John Egerton was killed, but controversy quickly erupted over whether he had died in a fair fight of honouror had been murdered in a shameful conspiracy. The legal investigation into the killing produced a rich body of evidence which reveals in unparalleled detail not only the dynamics of the fight itself, but also the inner workingsof a seventeenth-century metropolitan manhunt, the Middlesex coroner's court, a murder trial at King's Bench, and also the murky webs of aristocratic patronage at the Jacobean Court which ultimately allowed Morgan to secure a pardon.

Uniquely, a series of dramatic Star Chamber suits have survived that also allow us to investigate the duel's origins. Their close examination, as Lloyd Bowen shows, calls into question the historiographical paradigm which sees early modern duels as matters of the moment and distinct from, as opposed to connected to, the gentry feud. The book throws much new light on questions of gentry honour, the nature and prevalence of early modern eliteviolence, and the process of judicial investigation in Shakespeare's England.

LLOYD BOWEN is Reader in Early Modern History at Cardiff University.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 239
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781800101197
• Artikelnr.: 61471698

Autorenporträt

Lloyd Bowen

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Fathers
Sons and Kinsmen: The Morgans and the Egertons A 'Great Styrre & Adoe': The Talacre Inheritance Dispute
1606-8 Challenges Offered and Declined
1608 The Duel in Elizabethan and Jacobean England and Wales Honour
Gentility and Violence: Highgate
21 April 1610 Corruption
Conspiracy and the Coroners Shifting Perspectives: Murder and Manslaughter in the Highgate Duel Jurors
Politics and Pardons: The Trial at King's Bench
1610-11 Epilogue(s) Conclusion Appendix 1: Timeline of the Morgan-Egerton Conflict Appendix 2: Jurors in King's Bench for the Trial of Edward Morgan Bibliography