Rus chronicles as sources of international law
Rus chronicles as sources of international law

Summary/Abstract: In medieval Rus there were two ‘legal systems’: codified law and further provisions found elsewhere. In the first case, the documents usually concern legally relevant matter, and embody a particular right or claim that has been preserved with more than usual care. In the second case many legal documents (as gramoty, agreements, etc.) were added in extenso in Rus chronicle. This situation strongly suggests that we should not only analyse Rus chronicles as narrative sources, full of political events, but also as collections of legal interpretation and guidance, and propositions of solutions to legal issues, especially on the international level. In that sense, we should see in the Rus chronicles a collection of precedents

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