Nancy Kollmann

Crime and Punishment in Early Modern Russia

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A magisterial account of criminal law in early modern Russia in a wider European and Eurasian context.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 506
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. März 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 34mm
• Gewicht: 967g
• ISBN-13: 9781107025134
• ISBN-10: 1107025133
• Artikelnr.: 36055546

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

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.