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- Title
“Procuraré morir matando o acabará mi vida”: el duelista y la muerte.
- Authors
Martorell Linares, Miguel
- Abstract
The risk of dying in a duel was consubstantial to the culture of honor, even in countries such as France or Spain, where death in a duel was not usual. The link between honor and life, or between their opposites, dishonor, and death, permeated the cultural imaginary of the liberal elites. The epic of duels revolved around the probability that a combatant would perish; and even when death was not the intended objective of the duel, uncertainty always weighed heavily: the threat of receiving a painful thrust or the eventuality of a serious injury. Death hovered over the challenges and whether it would come to the field of honor depended on several variables: the fierceness of the rivals, the skill of the godfathers in arranging the duel, whether one of the contenders was a military man, the nature of the offense or whether it revolved around a woman... The threat of eternal death also hung over the duelist, since the Church condemned duels and prohibited those who fell in combat without confession with receiving a sacred burial. The following pages deal with all of the above, focusing on the culture of mourning in Spain, framed in the international context and the presence of death in it.
- Subjects
SPAIN; FRANCE; HANGING (Death); DEATH threats; THRUST; BEREAVEMENT; PROBABILITY theory; MASCULINITY; CULTURE
- Publication
Vínculos de Historia, 2023, Issue 12, p105
- ISSN
2254-6901
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.18239/vdh_2023.12.05