Description: This is a magisterial account of the day-to-day practice of Russian criminal justice in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Nancy Kollmann contrasts Russian written law with its pragmatic application by local judges, arguing that this combination of formal law and legal institutions with informal, flexible practice contributed to the country's social and political stability. She also places Russian developments in the broader context of early modern European state-building strategies of governance and legal practice. She compares Russia's rituals of execution to the 'spectacles of suffering' of contemporary European capital punishment and uncovers the dramatic ways in which even the tsar himself, complying with Moscow's ideologies of legitimacy, bent to the moral economy of the crowd in moments of uprising. Throughout, the book assesses how criminal legal practice used violence strategically, administering horrific punishments in some cases and in others accommodating with local communities and popular concepts of justice. 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).
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EAN: 9781107699762
UPC: 9781107699762
ISBN: 9781107699762
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Book Title: Crime and Punishment in Early Modern Russia (New S
Item Length: 22.9 cm
Number of Pages: 506 Pages
Publication Name: Crime and Punishment in Early Modern Russia
Language: English
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Item Height: 230 mm
Subject: History
Publication Year: 2015
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 750 g
Author: Nancy Kollmann
Item Width: 153 mm
Format: Paperback
