VINOGRADOFF, PAUL (1854- )

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VINOGRADOFF, PAUL (1854- ) , Anglo-Russian jurist, was born at Kostroma in

Russia

RUSSIA
RUSSIA (Rossiya)

. He became professor of history in 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

RUSSIA
RUSSIA (Rossiya)

. Having settled in England, Vinogradoff brought a powerful and

original

ORIGINAL

mind to

bear

upon the social and economic conditions of early
England, a subject which he had already begun to study in Moscow. His Villainage in England (1892) is perhaps the most important book written on the peasantry of the feudal age and the

village

VILLAGE

community in England; it can only be compared for value with F. W. 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

SETTLEMENT
SETTLEMENT, ACT OF

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. Almost equally valuable was Vinogradoff's essay on " Folkland " in vol. viii. of the English Historical

Review

REVIEW (Fr. revue, from revoir, to see again, Lat. re and videre)

(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 nth Century (190), works on the lines of his earlier book. In 1903 he was appointed Corpus professor of jurisprudence in the university of

Oxford

, and subsequently became a fellow of the British

Academy

ACADEMY, GREEK
ACADEMY, ROYAL

. He received honorary degrees from the

principal

PRINCIPAL

universities, was made a member of several foreign academies and was appointed honorary professor of history at Moscow.

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