Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- Map
- Introduction
- 1 Fathers, Sons and Kinsmen: The Morgans and the Egertons
- 2 A ‘Great Styrre & Adoe’: The Talacre Inheritance Dispute, 1606–8
- 3 Challenges Offered and Declined, 1608
- 4 The Duel in Elizabethan and Jacobean England and Wales
- 5 Honour, Gentility and Violence: Highgate, 21 April 1610
- 6 Corruption, Conspiracy and the Coroners
- 7 Shifting Perspectives: Murder and Manslaughter in the Highgate Duel
- 8 Jurors, Politics and Pardons: The Trial at King’s Bench, 1610–11
- 9 Epilogue(s)
- Conclusion
- Appendix 1 Timeline of the Morgan–Egerton Conflict
- Appendix 2 Jurors in King’s Bench for the Trial of Edward Morgan
- Bibliography
- Index
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- Map
- Introduction
- 1 Fathers, Sons and Kinsmen: The Morgans and the Egertons
- 2 A ‘Great Styrre & Adoe’: The Talacre Inheritance Dispute, 1606–8
- 3 Challenges Offered and Declined, 1608
- 4 The Duel in Elizabethan and Jacobean England and Wales
- 5 Honour, Gentility and Violence: Highgate, 21 April 1610
- 6 Corruption, Conspiracy and the Coroners
- 7 Shifting Perspectives: Murder and Manslaughter in the Highgate Duel
- 8 Jurors, Politics and Pardons: The Trial at King’s Bench, 1610–11
- 9 Epilogue(s)
- Conclusion
- Appendix 1 Timeline of the Morgan–Egerton Conflict
- Appendix 2 Jurors in King’s Bench for the Trial of Edward Morgan
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Anatomy of a Duel in Jacobean EnglandGentry Honour, Violence and the Law, pp. xv - xixPublisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2021