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VINOGRADOFF, PAUL (1854- )

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VINOGRADOFF, See also:PAUL (1854- ) , Anglo-See also:Russian jurist, was See also:born at See also:Kostroma in See also:Russia. He became See also:professor of See also:history in the university of See also:Moscow, but his zeal for the spread of See also:education brought him into conflict with the authorities, and consequently he was obliged to leave Russia. Having settled in See also:England, Vinogradoff brought a powerful and See also:original mind to See also:bear upon the social and economic conditions of See also:early England, a subject which he had already begun to study in Moscow. His Villainage in England (1892) is perhaps the most important See also:book written on the peasantry of the feudal See also:age and the See also:village community in England; it can only be compared for value with F. W. See also:Maitland's Domesday Book and Beyond. In masterly See also:fashion Vinogradoff here shows that the villein of See also:Norman times was the See also:direct descendant of the Anglo-Saxon See also:freeman, and that the typical Anglo-Saxon See also:settlement was a See also:free community, not a See also:manor, the position of the freeman having steadily deteriorated in the centuries just around the Norman See also:Conquest. The status of the villein and the conditions of the manor in the 12th and 13th centuries are set forth with a legal precision and a See also:wealth of detail which shows its author, not only as a very capable historian, but also as a brilliant and learned jurist. Almost equally valuable was Vinogradoff's See also:essay on " See also:Folkland " in vol. viii. of the See also:English See also:Historical See also:Review (1893), which proved for the first See also:time the real nature of this See also:kind of See also:land. Vinogradoff followed up his Villainage in England with The Growth of the Manor (1905) and English Society in the nth See also:Century (190€), See also:works on the lines of his earlier book. In 1903 he was appointed Corpus professor of See also:jurisprudence in the university of See also:Oxford, and subsequently became a See also:fellow of the See also:British See also:Academy. He received honorary degrees from the See also:principal See also:universities, was made a member of several See also:foreign See also:academies and was appointed honorary professor of history at Moscow.

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