Duels Et Duellistes A Travers L'histoire

Duels of honor, judgments of God, battles of champions: since ancient times, men have faced each other in single combat, to represent their people or their lord, to save their heads, to clear their honor, or to defy death. A ritualized violence of equals that has endured through the ages, taking root in the depths of the human soul while bending to the rules of civility. From the walls of Troy to the arenas of Rome, from the forests of Germania to the court of the Pope, from royal chambers to remote villages, from the High Middle Ages to modern times, the duel crosses time, between passions and the sacred, between justice and strength, between the spiritual and the temporal, between violence and civilization...