By Honor Bound
Subtitle: State and Society in Early Modern Russia
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: July 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780801434358
Subjects: Cultural studies; Customs; European history: c 1500 to c 1750; Social history; c 1500 to c 1600; c 1600 to c 1700; Honor; Legal History; Russia - History; Political Science; History - General History; History: World; Russia; Europe - Russia & the Former Soviet Union; Customs & Traditions; Political Ideologies - Communism & Socialism; Courts of honor; History; Libel and slander
First sentence: This is a book about how individuals in early modern Russia-primarily in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries-defended their personal honor and how the state participated in that process by providing legal norms and access to litigation.