Comments on: A duel?… revisited

By: Sharon

Sharon — Sat, 11 Feb 2006 12:27:50 +0000

Matt, it doesn’t ring any particular bells, but I haven’t got time to check it today. (I’m in the middle of a Big Thing that will be happening tomorrow!) I’ll see if I can find anything later.

By: Matt

Matt — Sat, 11 Feb 2006 00:57:14 +0000

I have a question that I hope you can answer. In what manner did gentlemen challenge their enemy to a duel. I was under the impression that one technique was for the challenger to drop a white handkerchief in front of the path of the individuel whom he wanted to duel. Is this true?

By: Early Modern Notes » Thinking about duels and violent gentlemen

Early Modern Notes » Thinking about duels and violent gentlemen — Wed, 04 Jan 2006 10:23:47 +0000

[...] My archival research this summer has (at last) begun to develop some sense of direction, and one of the themes is masquerading under the working title of ‘Gentlemen Behaving Badly’. And I may well be writing a lot more about this, because it encompasses a lot of tasty topics: masculinity, ‘class’ or social rank, politics, litigation, violence, rioting, drinking… [Indeed, it looks like this is going to turn into a proper little series of posts: see here and here, and this earlier post as well. Not to mention this, too. Exciting eh?] [...]

By: Sharon

Sharon — Tue, 06 Sep 2005 22:26:13 +0000

They do seem to be above average. I’d think of, say Oxford or Cambridge h/b monograph prices as averaging £45-50. UWP possibly even slightly less. Routledge, it’s more like £60-70. Though 80 is still really high. It’s just shocking and wrong, and a real shame for the author. (Note to self: avoid Routledge for future books.)

… Although I still cringe when I remember telling two of my senior colleagues the other year how I’d look out for their latest books when they got remaindered… (This may have been after a few glasses of wine but I don’t think that’s much of an excuse.) Tact, what’s that again? Who needs to go to a conference to make a prat of herself? Not me. I can do that at home.

By: Sharon

Sharon — Tue, 06 Sep 2005 10:25:52 +0000

Are Routledge's monograph prices generally that high? I'll have to take a peek round their website, I suppose. For anyone interested, my favourite small commercial good-quality-and-reasonably-priced publisher right now just has to be Hambledon (which does some nice history of crime...).

By: Chris Williams

Chris Williams — Tue, 06 Sep 2005 10:08:41 +0000

Sorry, that came out wrong. I didn’t want any readers to think that John was gouging them: he isn’t. John deserves more money, people – it’s a great book.

Interest to declare: I work with him.

By: Sharon

Sharon — Sun, 04 Sep 2005 15:42:14 +0000

Oh, I do, I do. Regularly.

Not sure the fact that the author doesn’t make much is a consolation exactly… BTW, he’s quite prolific online, some interesting essays, eg here.

By: Chris Williams

Chris Williams — Sun, 04 Sep 2005 15:20:49 +0000

Yes, but if it’s any consolation I don’t think that he’s seeing much/any of that. Taylor and Francis’s parent group share price is going up, though:
http://www.ir.tfinforma.com/tfi/investors/shareinfo/chart/

Yet another moment to thank the fact that you live next to a copyright library.

By: Sharon

Sharon — Sun, 04 Sep 2005 10:04:28 +0000

Hadn't come across that one, so thanks. ...Bloody hell, just saw the price. £80?! That's outrageous.

By: Chris Williams

Chris Williams — Sun, 04 Sep 2005 09:35:36 +0000

Hi Sharon, have you read John Carter Wood’s _Violence and Crime in Nineteenth-century England_, specificially Chapter 4 on the semi-formal fistfight. I think that this is a great framework that might very useful in going beyond the ‘What is a duel?’ ‘Is this therefore a duel ?’ question.