Politics of the Sword: Dueling, Honor, and Masculinity in Modern Italy 9780814257289

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Автор: Hughes Steven C.
Название: Politics of the Sword: Dueling, Honor, and Masculinity in Modern Italy
ISBN: 9780814257289
Издательство: Ohio State University Press
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История

История Европы

Социальная история и история культуры

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ISBN-10: 0814257283
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 380
Вес: 0.55 кг.
Дата издания: 01.07.2020
Язык: English
Размер: 229 x 152 x 22
Читательская аудитория: General (us: trade)
Подзаголовок: Dueling, honor, and masculinity in modern italy
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Описание: Following its creation as a country in 1861, Italy experienced a wave of dueling that led commentators to bemoan a national duellomania evidenced by the sad spectacle of a duel a day. Pamphlets with titles like Down with the Duel and The Shame of the Duel all communicated the passion of those who could not believe that a people supposedly just returned to the path of progress and civilization had wholeheartedly embraced such a barbaric custom. Yet these critics were consistently countered by sober-minded men of rank and influence who felt that the duel was necessary for the very health of the new nation. Steven C. Hughes argues that this extraordinary increase in chivalric combat occurred because the duel played an important role in the formation, consolidation, and functioning of united Italy. The code of honor that lay at the heart of the dueling ethic offered a common model and bond of masculine identity for those patriotic elites who, having created a country of great variety and contrast for often contradictory motives, had to then deal with the consequences. Thus dueling became an iconic weapon of struggle during the Risorgimento, and, as Italy performed poorly on the stage of great power politics, it continued to offer images of martial valor and manly discipline. It also enhanced the social and political power of the new national elites, whose monopoly over chivalric honor helped reinforce the disenfranchisement of the masses. Eventually, the duel fed into the hypermasculinity and cult of violence that marked the early fascist movement, but in the end it would prove too individualistic in its definition of honor to stand up to the emerging totalitarian state. Although Mussolini would himself fight five duels at the start of his career, the duel would disappear along with the liberal regime that had embraced it.

Politics of the Sword: Dueling, Honor, and Masculinity in Modern Italy, Hughes Steven C.