Hans Talhoffer was a Fifteenth Century German martial artist who was a master swordsman. He earned his living by, in part, teaching fencing. He was a well-educated gentleman who could write well and produced several writ...

Riley Stearns, a filmmaker, wrote, directed, and p...  ...a Dusk by Barbara Holland, which is a history of dueling in Western civilization. Holland's text includes...

John Overholt, a rare books curator at the Houghton Library of Harvard University, passes along this enticing image. He recently visited the Bruce McKittrick Rare Books shop in Narberth, Pennsylvania, where he found the...

I won’t speak about Brazilian politics in ge...  ...t. Sure, it’s not the grand old practice of dueling , but it is a start.The Guardian reports that Sim&...

How do you get really good at anything? Practi...  ...practice, practice. That's hard to manage with dueling . So in the first few years of the Twentieth Centu...  ...a school where ambitious men could develop their dueling skills without dying. This was an age before pain...

Sadly, you can't challenge people to fight to...  ...It was not always so. Early in American history, dueling was an accepted if legally dubious practice....  ...ntucky State Officials Must Swear an Oath against Dueling

The oath of office for officials in the State of Kentucky includes an affirmation that the person has never fought a duel: Typically, a judge and honoree stand facing each other, right hands raised. The judge recites...