Boxing and Duelling
Modes of fighting to settle private quarrels have differed between countries and between social classes or estates. In this essay, Elias makes a detailed comparison of the trajectories of development between duelling and boxing and between France and Engl
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The following chapter is a compilation of two different but related documents in the catalogue of the Deutsches Literaturarchiv in Marbach am Neckar: entries no. ‘Sport 11’ and ‘Sport 14’ in the Norbert Elias archive inventory. ‘Sport 11’ shows a handwritten title ‘Boxing and duelling’. The manuscript notation is SPX (starting on SPX33 and ending in SPX76). The first part (from SPX33 to SPX56) is focused on boxing, comparing the English version and the French version (savate). The second part (from SPX57 to SPX76) is focused on duelling, comparing the English and French cases but developing mainly the French case from SPX57-SPX65 (there is a brief mention of fencing in SPX57) and then the English case from SPX66-SPX76. Some of the passages of SPX66SPX76 contain many slightly different versions, indicating this was still a draft in progress much reordered and polished in the SPY version of ‘Sport 14’. In ‘Sport 14’ the manuscript notation is SPY. It contains two parts; SPY1 to SPY4 contains the first pages of the draft. It shows a typewritten heading ‘Duelling’ and a subheading ‘Sociological problems’ and also a date: 18-5-1982. Then we find SPY66 to SPY76, showing what we believe is the indication of a Chapter “Fragments on Sportisation”, developing a more extended version of the argument (including the content of SPY1-SPY4) already elaborated in SPX66-SPX76. It deals with the development of duelling in England mainly. Also in the 1980s, Elias wrote a long essay on ‘Honour, duelling and membership of the imperial ruling class: being judged worthy to give satisfaction’ (See Elias, Studies on the Germans (Dublin: UCD Press, 2013 [Collected Works, vol. 11]), pp. 49–134).
The sociologist Norbert Elias (*1897 in Wroclaw) died 1990 in Amsterdam. For further queries contact the editors or the Norbert Elias Foundation. http://norbert-elias.com © Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH 2018 J. Haut et al. (eds.), Excitement Processes, DOI 10.1007/978-3-658-14912-3_8
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In a note on the text of Quest for Excitement Eric Dunning stated that Elias gave a talk about the development of modern boxing in Bielefeld in 1979 that was based on unpublished material of ‘An essay on sport and violence’ (Dunning, in Elias and Dunning, Quest for Excitement: Sport and Leisure in the Civilising Process (Dublin: UCD Press, 2008 [Collected Works, vol. 7]), p. xiv.). Thus, we believe the manuscript ‘Boxing and duelling’ was produced around the end of the 1970s and completed at the beginning of the 1980s. In fact, we believe that the ‘Duelling’ SPY (SPY66-SPY76) document (dated 1982) is a later and more elaborated version of the second part of SPX (SPX66-SPX76). The text has been edited as far as possible according to the principles developed by Stephen Mennell for the Collected Works (see Stephen Mennell, ‘The Collected Works: Note on Editorial Policy’, in Norbert Elias: Supplements and Index to the Collected Works (Dublin: UCD Press, 2014 [Collected Works, vol. 18]), pp. ix–xiv).—eds. In all countries, as far as one can see, the m
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