Single Combat

Abstract: ‘Single combat’ describes the conflict between two adversaries and, in the narrower sense, the struggle between a human and another living being that either directly involves physical force or that occurs indirectly through the application of individually usable tools or accessories.
Athletic and martial, armed, violent and physical, regulated and spontaneous conflicts, as well as the (ritualised) duel, are all practices of single combat. As one form of agonal conflict, single combat can be associated with heroizations, if the combatant who initially appears weaker prevails and thereby achieves the extraordinary, if he or she is acting in the interests of a community and/or is adored as a hero (because of that). In addition, single combat in itself can be regarded as a heroic practice. As a heroic deed, single combat is a persistent topos and appears as a practice and a subject portrayed in various media since the time of the early advanced civilisations in the Near East, in ancient Greece and Rome, in the Middle Ages and in the modern period (in the latter primarily in the form of the ritualised duel)

Standort
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
Umfang
Online-Ressource
Ausgabe
Version 1.0, published 24 June 2024
Sprache
Englisch

Klassifikation
Chemie
Schlagwort
Zweikampf
Heroisierung
Kriegsheld
Tierkampf
Sport
Antike
Mythologie
Griechenland

Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wo)
Freiburg
(wer)
Universität
(wann)
2024
Urheber
Beteiligte Personen und Organisationen

DOI
10.6094/heroicum/zke1.0.20240624
URN
urn:nbn:de:bsz:25-freidok-2514080
Rechteinformation
Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
Letzte Aktualisierung
14.08.2025, 10:58 MESZ

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