Markku Peltonen is Senior Lecturer in General History, Department of History, University of Helsinki.

• Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. The rise of civil courtesy and the duelling theory in Elizabethan and early Stuart England; 2. The Jacobean anti-duelling campaign; 3. Duelling, civility and honour in Restoration and Augustan England; 4. Anti-duelling campaigns 1660–1720; 5. Politeness, duelling and honour in Bernard Mandeville; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index.

'… this book is a welcome and valuable addition to our understanding, not only of a set of social and intellectual debates, but of the formation of modern society …' History

Markku Peltonen is Senior Lecturer in General History, Department of History, University of Helsinki.

• Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. The rise of civil courtesy and the duelling theory in Elizabethan and early Stuart England; 2. The Jacobean anti-duelling campaign; 3. Duelling, civility and honour in Restoration and Augustan England; 4. Anti-duelling campaigns 1660–1720; 5. Politeness, duelling and honour in Bernard Mandeville; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index.

'… this book is a welcome and valuable addition to our understanding, not only of a set of social and intellectual debates, but of the formation of modern society …' History

Markku Peltonen is Senior Lecturer in General History, Department of History, University of Helsinki.

• Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. The rise of civil courtesy and the duelling theory in Elizabethan and early Stuart England; 2. The Jacobean anti-duelling campaign; 3. Duelling, civility and honour in Restoration and Augustan England; 4. Anti-duelling campaigns 1660–1720; 5. Politeness, duelling and honour in Bernard Mandeville; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index.

'… this book is a welcome and valuable addition to our understanding, not only of a set of social and intellectual debates, but of the formation of modern society …' History