Crime and Punishment in Early Modern Russia

Informationen zum Autor Nancy Shields Kollmann is William H. Bonsall Professor in History at Stanford University. Her previous publications include By Honor Bound: State and Society in Early Modern Russia (1999). Klappentext A magisterial account of criminal law in early modern Russia in a wider European and Eurasian context. 'Kollmann deftly describes what a typical Muscovite criminal procedure looked like.' Times Literary Supplement Zusammenfassung A magisterial account of the day-to-day practice of Russian criminal justice in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Nancy Kollmann contrasts written law with its pragmatic application by local judges and sets Russian developments in the broader context of early modern European state-building strategies of governance and legal practice. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Part I. Judicial Culture: 1. Foundations of the criminal law; 2. The problem of professionalism: judicial staff; 3. Staff and society; 4. Policing of officialdom; 5. Procedure and evidence; 6. Torture; 7. Resolving a case; 8. Petrine reforms and the criminal law; Part II. Punishment: 9. Corporal punishment to 1648; 10. Corporal punishment, 1649-98; 11. To the exile system; 12. Peter I and punishment; 13. Capital punishment: form and ritual; 14. Punishing highest crime in the long sixteenth century; 15. Factions, witchcraft and heresy; 16. Riot and rebellion; 17. Moral economies: spectacle and sacrifice; 18. Peter the Great and spectacles of suffering; Conclusion: Russian legal culture; Appendix: punishment for felonies; Bibliography.

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• Authors: Nancy Kollmann, Nancy (Stanford University Kollmann, Nancy Shields Kollmann, Kollmann Nancy
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.10.2012
• EAN: 9781107025134
• ISBN: 978-1-107-02513-4
• No. of pages: 506
• Series: New Studies in European Histor; New Studies in European History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Russia, European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, LAW / Legal History, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Social and cultural history, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, Crime and criminology, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, Modern Period, C 1500 Onwards, HISTORY / Russia / General, HISTORY / Russia / Imperial