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Ep 169 - We Demand Satisfaction feat Paul Bavill from History Rage
🕑 Added 2024-05-31 11:22:56 +0000 UTCpatrons, here is your ad-free version of this week's regular episode. it's an interview so no question this time.
folks, we're back and we've got Paul Bavill, co-host of the History Rage podcast, to talk with us about dueling, trials by combat, honor, and demands for satisfaction. we discuss why duels and trials by combat were actually fought, what the difference is between honor and reputation, and even some of the most interesting duels in history. check it out and check out Paul's work on History Rage to hear more from him.
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Colin Keesee
Extremely interesting. The risk of being cashiered out, changes my whole perception of duels. It’s a pretty rational economic motive. Your adversary is saying that your upper middle class nest egg ought to be seized.
lukeisamazing
I don’t know where the syphillis thing came from either bc contemporaries and historians all basically agree he lost it in a duel. there’s a 2003 book by William Boerst based on older research that goes into it
Do Golems Dream of Ceramic Sheep
I always thought that "Lost their nose in a duel" was a euphemism/cover for "lost their nose to tertiary syphilis" . I have no idea how or from where this idea came into my head, so l won't comment on it's reality/frequency, but is there some basis in fact for that idea?
