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DOI: 10.18413/2408-932X-2019-5-4-0-4

THE CODE OF LAW OF IVAN III: A MONUMENT TO RUSSIAN LAW OR A NARRATIVE DOCUMENT?

Sudebnik (The Code of Law) of Ivan III, compiled in 1497, has been in the field of view of Russian and world historiography for more than two centuries. During this time, a historiographic tradition has developed and is well established. In accordance with it, Sudebnik is considered as a set of documents, which was one of the fundamental for Russian jurisprudence of the late Middle Ages and early Modern times. The changes of the first decades of the XXI century in the field of the methodology of historical knowledge and the formation of interdisciplinary research in the historiography of Russian law allow us to identify new semantic facets of a well-known source. At the crossroads of classical social and political history, the history of state and law and source studies, in an interdisciplinary cognitive context, questions about the forms and features of the document's presence in Russian legal culture become possible. In the proposed article, Sudebnik is explored in the light of newly emerging methodological possibilities. It is proved that this code of Russian law in the Russian historical legal field existed along with the legal custom. Moreover, it did not dominate the custom, but rather, clarified and supplemented it. Given the features of its existence in the Russian book environment, it can be argued, as the article shows, that the Code of Law of Ivan III was not only and not so much an autonomous source of Russian law, but an integral part of a holistic Russian book tradition.

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