Veche and the terms “All Pskov” and “Pskov Men”: The Russian Medieval City Assembly as a Communal Structure
Alexei Vovin
The article focuses on the collective political institution, veche, of Russian medieval city Pskov. author argues that horizontal ties within prevailed over vertical ones in period before its subjugation to Muscovite State 1510. Pskov is put into a broad comparative perspective which results conclusion by development fourteenth–fifteenth centuries very closely resembled kind urban synoecism was practiced Western European communes their early stage (eleventh–twelfth centuries). It means, first, Middle Ages repeated some important features had occurred Europe, and, second, it happened not due borrowing institutions (as case with many East countries) but independently because similar conditions arising, albeit after two-century delay.
Mesto a dejiny|Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)