CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2016
| Author | Kalashnikova, Angelina |
|---|---|
| Title | Diplomatics of Russian Judicial Charters(c. 1400-1550) |
| Summary | In this thesis I examine Russian judicial charters from the fifteenth and the first half of the sixteenth century which represent protocols of land court procedure. By focusing on precise details of judicial charters such as formulae, text layout, seals and signatures, this study aims to explore features of the Russian judicial system. I apply classical diplomatic analysis to compare formulae of charters surviving from various north-eastern Russian principalities, and I show that competitive state formations such as the grand duchy of Moscow and the grand duchy of Ryazan issued judicial charters in the same form. This indicates that judicial procedure of these duchies was very much alike and that there were fewer difficulties incorporating local judicial practices in Muscovite judicial system. Detailed analysis of the external features of judicial charters also reveals that court protocols were written not in the process of litigation, but after it. Thus judicial documents were not just an accurate record of the “real” procedure, but a post-representation of it with possible distortions. The direct speech of the litigants and witnesses was hardly ever exactly recorded, but consisted of formulae common in many trial records. |
| Supervisor | Nagy, Balazs |
| Department | Medieval Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2016/kalashnikova_angel.pdf |
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