Men of Honour

Ute Frevert is a German historian. She is a specialist in modern and contemporary Germany, with an interest in social and gender history. She currently serves as the executive director of the Center for the History of Emotions at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development.

• Introduction. 1. Between the brawl and the duel of honour: the early modern era.2. The Enlightenment, public opinion and state policy on duelling.3. The honour of officers.4. 'Scholastic' honour and academic duelling.5. Freedom, equality, masculinity.6. The demise of duelling: the twentieth century.Appendices.Sources and Bibliography.Notes.Index.

"An impressive historiographical achievement." Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung "This is a scholarly, imaginative and lively book. Frevert writes extremely perceptively about the contradictions and conflicts of the period." Peter Burke, University of Cambridge