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The growth of the law in medieval Russia

Daniel H. Kaiser
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  • Contents

  • Reviews

  • Frontmatter
  • PREFACE (page ix)
  • CHAPTER 1 Notions of Law and Legal Development (page 3)
  • CHAPTER 2 Sources of the Law (page 18)
    • Kormchaia Kniga (page 19)
    • Merilo Pravednoe (page 23)
    • Miscellanies (page 25)
    • The Russkaia Pravda and Its Historiography (page 29)
    • Regional Legal Texts (page 37)
    • Muscovite Law (page 39)
    • The Russkaia Pravda and the Law in Medieval Russia (page 41)
    • Zakon Sudnyi Liudem (page 46)
    • Princely Statutes (page 50)
    • Sources of Medieval Russian Law (page 60)
  • CHAPTER 3 Sanctions and the Law (page 62)
    • Homicide (page 63)
    • Assault (page 80)
    • Theft and Robbery (page 82)
    • Conclusions (page 90)
  • CHAPTER 4 Development of Judicial Personnel (page 94)
    • The Origins of Judicial Personnel in Russia (page 96)
    • Judicial Personnel in Novgorod and Pskov (page 101)
    • Muscovite Judicial Personnel (page 114)
    • Judicial Personnel and the New Legal Order (page 125)
  • CHAPTER 5 Patterns of Evidence (page 127)
    • Testimony (page 128)
    • Ordeals (page 148)
    • Physical Evidence (page 152)
    • Written Evidence (page 153)
    • Evidence and the Law (page 163)
  • CHAPTER 6 Medieval Russian Society and Legal Change (page 164)
    • The Role of the Church in Russian Legal Change (page 165)
    • Society and Legal Change (page 174)
    • Legal Change and Medieval Russia (page 186)
  • ABBREVIATIONS (page 189)
  • NOTES (page 190)
  • GLOSSARY (page 269)
  • SOURCES CITED (page 275)
  • INDEX (page 305)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
SEER 61.3 (Jul. 1983): 448-449 http://www.jstor.org/stable/4208718
ENHR 99.390 (Jan. 1984): 154 http://www.jstor.org/stable/567947
RR 43.1 (Jan. 1984): 81-82 http://www.jstor.org/stable/129724
AHR 87.4 (Oct. 1982): 1079-1080 http://www.jstor.org/stable/1857955
SP 57.2 (Apr. 1982): 386-387 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2847482
SR 41.2 (Summer. 1982): 323-324 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2496350
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Published: c1980
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9780691615370 (paper)
  • 9780691053110 (hardcover)
  • 9781400855599 (ebook)
Subject
  • European: Russia & Eastern
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