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By Honor Bound : State and Society in Early Modern Russia by Nancy Shields Kollmann [Kollmann, Nancy Shields] is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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<p>In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Russians from all ranks of society were bound together by a culture of honor. Here one of the foremost scholars of early modern Russia explores the intricate and highly stylized codes that made up this culture. Nancy Shields Kollmann describes how these codes were manipulated to construct identity and enforce social norms—and also to defend against insults, to pursue vendettas, and to unsettle communities. She offers evidence for a new view of the relationship of state and society in the Russian empire, and her richly comparative approach enhances knowledge of statebuilding in premodern Europe. By presenting Muscovite state and society in the context of medieval and early modern Europe, she exposes similarities that blur long-standing distinctions between Russian and European history.Through the prism of honor, Kollmann examines the interaction of the Russian state and its people in regulating social relations and defining an individual's rank. She finds vital information in a collection of transcripts of legal suits brought by elites and peasants alike to avenge insult to honor. The cases make clear the conservative role honor played
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Nancy Shields Kollmann [Kollmann, Nancy Shields]
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Published
- 1999
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780801434358
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Fiction, Sociology, History