What one duel can tell us about Jacobean England

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🗓️ 1 April 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Lloyd Bowen shares the story of one remarkable 1601 duel with Elinor Evans. He reveals what the wealth of evidence around a single dispute can tell us about the codes of honour that governed elite violence in early modern England. (Ad) Lloyd Bowen is the author Anatomy of a Duel in Jacobean England: Gentry Honour, Violence and the Law (Boydell & Brewer, 2021). Buy it now from Waterstones: https://go.skimresources.com?id=71026X1535947&xcust=historyextra-social-histboty&xs=1&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.waterstones.com%2Fbook%2Fanatomy-of-a-duel-in-jacobean-england%2Flloyd-bowen%2F9781783276097 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Just Between Us, the podcast with all of the answers, some of the time.
0:05.0	A bit of a different thing going on this week.
0:07.3	You've been immature and you've lied.
0:10.3	And now you're trying to turn it on me and manipulate me and gaslight me.
0:13.9	I was trying to manipulate you.
0:15.7	Diana, you would be chucking their clothes out of the window.
0:18.1	I know, I'd be like, are you joking?
0:20.6	I don't know.
0:21.7	I guess you'd have to ask.
0:23.5	Someone that has sex.
0:24.2	Someone that has sex.
0:26.3	And remember, it's just between us.
0:47.5	Hello and welcome to the History Extra podcast from BBC History Magazine and BBC History Revealed.
0:56.2	I'm Ellie Cawthorne.
1:05.1	Jewels. You might think of them as affairs of the heart, or spontaneous disputes fueled by a moment of madness.
1:13.3	But by looking at a single jewel 141610, Lloyd Bowen's new book, Anatomy of a Jewel, reveals how the practice wasn't always simply a matter of passion or insult. This well-documented jewel was rooted
1:20.3	in the complex codes of the gentry and a protracted family feud and led to a controversial
1:26.9	face-off and even a manhunt.
1:30.0	Eleanor Evan spoke to Lloyd to find out more.
1:33.3	So Lloyd, thank you so much for joining the History Extra podcast today.
1:36.4	And your book examines an early 17th century jewel that's documented like no other.
1:41.3	Can we start from hearing from you an introduction to the duel at the centre of your book?
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