Recourse to personal vengeance and dueling was considered a class privilege of the sword-

bearing aristocracy before the formation of the modern centralized liberal-bureaucratic nation-
state (see Marc Bloch, trans. L. . Manyon, Feudal Society, !ol. ", #$%&, p. #'(). "n addition,
sociologists have posited a comple* legal and ethical interrelationship between vigilante acts
and rebellion and tyrannicide.