Somewhat after the fact, I'm reading Barbara Holland's Gentlemen's Blood: A History of Dueling from Swords at Dawn to Pistols at Dusk, published in 2004. I should have read it before writing The Affair of the Code Duello, but fortunately I didn't seem to have committed any major faux pas. The book is quite entertaining, [...]
Published on March 30, 2012 12:31