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The growth of the law in medieval Russia
Daniel H. Kaiser
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Frontmatter
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PREFACE (page ix)
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CHAPTER 1 Notions of Law and Legal Development (page 3)
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CHAPTER 2 Sources of the Law (page 18)
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Kormchaia Kniga (page 19)
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Merilo Pravednoe (page 23)
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Miscellanies (page 25)
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The Russkaia Pravda and Its Historiography (page 29)
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Regional Legal Texts (page 37)
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Muscovite Law (page 39)
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The Russkaia Pravda and the Law in Medieval Russia (page 41)
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Zakon Sudnyi Liudem (page 46)
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Princely Statutes (page 50)
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Sources of Medieval Russian Law (page 60)
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CHAPTER 3 Sanctions and the Law (page 62)
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Homicide (page 63)
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Assault (page 80)
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Theft and Robbery (page 82)
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Conclusions (page 90)
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CHAPTER 4 Development of Judicial Personnel (page 94)
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The Origins of Judicial Personnel in Russia (page 96)
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Judicial Personnel in Novgorod and Pskov (page 101)
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Muscovite Judicial Personnel (page 114)
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Judicial Personnel and the New Legal Order (page 125)
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CHAPTER 5 Patterns of Evidence (page 127)
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Testimony (page 128)
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Ordeals (page 148)
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Physical Evidence (page 152)
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Written Evidence (page 153)
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Evidence and the Law (page 163)
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CHAPTER 6 Medieval Russian Society and Legal Change (page 164)
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The Role of the Church in Russian Legal Change (page 165)
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Society and Legal Change (page 174)
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Legal Change and Medieval Russia (page 186)
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ABBREVIATIONS (page 189)
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NOTES (page 190)
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GLOSSARY (page 269)
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SOURCES CITED (page 275)
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INDEX (page 305)
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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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 |
Citable Link
Published: c1980
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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- 9780691053110 (hardcover)
- 9781400855599 (ebook)