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The Impact of the Southern and Eastern Frontiers of Muscovy On the Ulozhenie (Law Code) of 1649 Compared With the Impact of the Western Frontier

The Impact of the Southern and Eastern Frontiers of Muscovy On the Ulozhenie (Law Code) of 1649... RICHARD HELLIE (Chicago, IL, USA) THE IMPACT OF THE SOUTHERN AND EASTERN FRONTIERS OF MUSCOVY ON THE ULOZHENIE (LAW CODE) OF 1649 COMPARED WITH THE IMPACT OF THE WESTERN FRONTIER The major thesis of this essay is that law is a mirror of society, much in the way that literature (or at least some literature) is a mirror of society. In the Russian tradition, the critic Dmitrii Nikolaevich Ovsianniko-Kulikovskii perhaps best represented the literature-as-mirror-of-life tradition, while the Formalists (Roman Jakobson, Boris Eikhenbaum, Viktor Shklovskii, Iurii Tynianov, and Viktor Zhirmunskii? represented the intemalist school which (like the American "New Critics" represented by University of Chicago scholar Ronald Crane) believed that literature had an existence independent of social life and could be understood and analyzed without reference to external context. There are similar schools for the study of law. I am aware of no theory or debate about how one can use law as a micro- cosmic measure of social reality, although of course the "law and society school" that began at the University of Wisconsin had the two elements as its focus. Americans seem to concern themselves more with the issues such as whether law reflects society at the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Russian History Brill

The Impact of the Southern and Eastern Frontiers of Muscovy On the Ulozhenie (Law Code) of 1649 Compared With the Impact of the Western Frontier

Hellie, Richard
Russian History , Volume 19 (1-4): 75 – Jan 1, 1992
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© 1992 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0094-288X
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RICHARD HELLIE (Chicago, IL, USA) THE IMPACT OF THE SOUTHERN AND EASTERN FRONTIERS OF MUSCOVY ON THE ULOZHENIE (LAW CODE) OF 1649 COMPARED WITH THE IMPACT OF THE WESTERN FRONTIER The major thesis of this essay is that law is a mirror of society, much in the way that literature (or at least some literature) is a mirror of society. In the Russian tradition, the critic Dmitrii Nikolaevich Ovsianniko-Kulikovskii perhaps best represented the literature-as-mirror-of-life tradition, while the Formalists (Roman Jakobson, Boris Eikhenbaum, Viktor Shklovskii, Iurii Tynianov, and Viktor Zhirmunskii? represented the intemalist school which (like the American "New Critics" represented by University of Chicago scholar Ronald Crane) believed that literature had an existence independent of social life and could be understood and analyzed without reference to external context. There are similar schools for the study of law. I am aware of no theory or debate about how one can use law as a micro- cosmic measure of social reality, although of course the "law and society school" that began at the University of Wisconsin had the two elements as its focus. Americans seem to concern themselves more with the issues such as whether law reflects society at the

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