Paul Vinogradoff

Paul Gavrilovich Vinogradoff
Born	30 (18) November 1854 Kostroma, Russia
Died	19 December 1925(1925-12-19) (aged 71) Paris, France
Occupation	Historian, Educator
Nationality	Russian (to 1918); British (from 1918)
Subjects	Medieval Europe
Notable work(s)	Villainage in England: Essays in English Medieval History
Spouse(s)	Louise Stang
Children	Helen, Igor

Sir Paul Vinogradoff (Russian: Па́вел Гаври́лович Виногра́дов, transliterated: Pavel Gavrilovich Vinogradov; 18 (30) November 1854, Kostroma, Russia– 19 December 1925, Paris, France) was a highly reputable Anglo-Russian historian-medievalist.

Career

He became professor of history at the University of Moscow, but his zeal for the spread of education brought him into conflict with the authorities, and consequently he was obliged to leave Russia. Having settled in England, Vinogradoff brought a powerful and original mind to bear upon the social and economic conditions of early England, a subject which he had already begun to study in Moscow.^[1]

In 1903 he was appointed Corpus professor of jurisprudence in the university of Oxford, and subsequently became a fellow of the British Academy. He received honorary degrees from the principal universities, was made a member of several foreign academies and was appointed honorary professor of history at Moscow.^[1]

Books

Writing in 1911, the anonymous author of Vinogradoff's biography in the Encyclopædia Britannica thought that Vinogradoff's Villainage in England (1892) is perhaps the most important book written on the peasantry of the feudal age and the village community in England; it can only be compared for value with FW Maitland's Domesday Book and Beyond. In masterly fashion Vinogradoff here shows that the villein of Norman times was the direct descendant of the Anglo-Saxon freeman, and that the typical Anglo-Saxon settlement was a free community, not a manor, the position of the freeman having steadily deteriorated in the centuries just around the Norman 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 wealth of detail which shows its author, not only as a very capable historian, but also as a brilliant and learned jurist.^[1]

The 1911 author thought that almost equally valuable was Vinogradoff's essay on “Folkland” in vol. viii. of the English Historical Review (1893), which proved for the first time the real nature of this kind of land. Vinogradoff followed up his Villainage in England with The Growth of the Manor (1905) and English Society in the Eleventh Century (1908), works on the lines of his earlier book.^[1]

In Outlines in Historical Jurisprudence" (1920–22), Vinogradoff traces the development of basic themes of jurisprudence, including marriage, property, and succession, in six different types of society: the totemistic, the tribal, the ancient city state, the medieval system of feudalism and canon law, and modern industrial society.^[1]

Bibliography

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• (1880) The Origins of Feudal Relations in Lombard Italy
• (1884) Villainage in England (publ. 1887; trans. to English 1892)
• (1905) The Growth of the Manor
• (1908) English Society in the Eleventh Century
• (1909) Roman Law in Medieval Europe
• (1913) Constitutional History and the Year Books
• (1917) Year Books of Edward II, 1312 – 1313
• (1920) Outlines in Historical Jurisprudence (Introduction and Tribal Law)
• (1922) Outlines in Historical Jurisprudence (The Jurisprudence of the Greek City)

• Vinogradoff, Paul (1892), Villainage in England: Essays in English Medieval History, Carendon Press: Clarendon Press, http://books.google.com/?id=cwcLAAAAYAAJ, retrieved 2008-06-04 
• Vinogradoff, Paul (1893), "Folkland", in Gardiner, S. R., The English Historical Review, VIII, London: Longmans, Green, and Co, pp. 1–17, http://books.google.com/?id=b-oIAAAAIAAJ, retrieved 2008-06-06 
• Vinogradoff, Paul (1904), The Teaching of Sir Henry Maine: An Inaugural Lecture, London: Henry Frowde, http://books.google.com/?id=eH_ywxf27NEC, retrieved 2008-06-04 
• Vinogradoff, Paul (1905), The Growth of the Manor, London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co, http://books.google.com/?id=tJoCAAAAMAAJ, retrieved 2008-06-04 
• Vinogradoff, Paul (1907), Transfer of Land in Old English Law, Cambridge: The Harvard Law Review Association, http://books.google.com/?id=9cQVAAAAYAAJ, retrieved 2008-06-04 
• Vinogradoff, Paul (1908), English Society in the Eleventh Century: Essays in Medieval English History, Oxford: Clarendon Press, http://books.google.com/?id=bl8NAAAAIAAJ, retrieved 2008-06-04 
• Vinogradoff, Paul (1909), Roman Law in Medieval Europe, London: Harper & Brothers, http://www.archive.org/details/romanlawinmediae00vinoiala, retrieved 2008-06-04 
• Vinogradoff, Paul (1911), "Social and Economic Conditions of the Roman Empire in the Fourth Century", in Gwatkin, H. M., The Cambridge Medieval History, I, New York: The MacMillan Company, pp. 543–567, http://books.google.com/?id=BVUMAAAAYAAJ, retrieved 2008-06-04 
• Vinogradoff, Paul (1913), "Foundations of Society (Origins of Feudalism)", in Gwatkin, H. H., The Cambridge Medieval History, II, New York: The MacMillan Company, pp. 630–654, http://books.google.com/?id=XiuSGrFt32gC, retrieved 2008-06-04 
• Vinogradoff, Paul, ed. (1913), Essays in Legal History Read Before the International Congress of Historical Studies, held in London in 1913, London: Oxford University Press, http://www.archive.org/details/essaysinlegalhis00inteuoft, retrieved 2008-06-04 
• Vinogradoff, Paul (1914), Common-sense in Law, New York: H. Holt and Company, http://www.archive.org/details/commonsenseinlaw00vino, retrieved 2008-06-04 
• Vinogradoff, Paul, ed. (1914), Oxford Studies in Social and Legal History, IV, Oxford: Clarendon Press, http://books.google.com/?id=kuc8AAAAIAAJ, retrieved 2008-06-04 
• Vinogradoff, Paul (1914), "Russian Culture", in Bingham, Alfred, Handbook of the European War, II, White Plains: H. W. Wilson Company, 1916, pp. 160–169, http://books.google.com/?id=Tj-aUbFvKCoC, retrieved 2008-06-04 
• Vinogradoff, Paul (1917), "Magna Carta, C. 39. Nullus Liber Homo, etc.", in Malden, Henry Elliot, Magna Carta Commemoration Essays, Royal Historical Society, pp. 78–95, http://www.archive.org/details/magnacartacommem00malduoft, retrieved 2008-06-04 
• Vinogradoff, Paul (1918), "Introduction", in Hübner, Rudolf, A History of Germanic Private Law, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, pp. xxvii–xli, http://books.google.com/?id=_rExAAAAIAAJ, retrieved 2008-06-04 
• Vinogradoff, Paul (1920), Outlines of Historical Jurisprudence (Introduction and Tribal Law), 1, London: Oxford University Press, http://books.google.com/?id=yo4lAAAAMAAJ, retrieved 2008-06-04 
• Vinogradoff, Paul (1922), Outlines of Historical Jurisprudence (The Jurisprudence of the Greek City), 2, London: Oxford University Press, http://www.archive.org/details/outlinesofhistor02vinouoft, retrieved 2008-06-04 

Notes

1. ^ ^{a b c d e} Anonymous 1911.

References

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Anonymous (1911). "Vinogradoff, Paul". In Chisholm, Hugh. Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. 

Further reading

• Works written by or about Paul Vinogradoff at Wikisource
• Paul Govrilovitch (sic) Vinogradoff: some of his articles online.

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Name	Vinogradoff, Paul
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth	30 November 1854
Place of birth	Kostroma, Russia
Date of death	19 December 1925
Place of death	Paris, France