"In Defense of the Honor of the Noble House": the Case of the Execution of Servants by Prince Samuel Karol Koretsky in Volhynia in 1645
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https://doi.org/10.15407/uhj2017.01.012Keywords:
source, gentry values, judiciary system, honour, power, symbolic capital, source, gentry values, judiciary system, honour, power, symbolic capital.Abstract
The article demonstrates that a new exploratory framework can shed a new light even on the most seemingly “credible” sources and the events described therein, based on the case when Prince Samuel Karol Korecki ordered the public execution of his servants. When read literally, as a veracious representation of the past, it can be interpreted as a startling example of magnates’ despotism, and as blatant disregard for the basic gentry and Christian values. However, I would like to suggest that the text should be analysed as a narrative construct that relies on the peculiarities of the judiciary system of the time: crimes were treated as the injured party’s private matter, and verdicts were built not on a thorough investigation of evidence but rather on the accepted conventions, e.g., on the rhetorical tropes.
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