Rod and Law among the Slavs and Germans from antiquity to the Middle Ages

Professor Sergei Mikhailovich Shpilevsky (1833-1907) - a prominent Russian historian of law, archaeologist, local historian, laureate of the Uvarovsky Prize of the Russian Imperial Academy of Sciences - left a bright mark in domestic historical surveys. His study “Union of family protection among the ancient Germans and Slavs” is a fundamental excursion into the past, which allows you to trace the nature of family-rod ties among Slavic and Germanic tribes, their transformation in the era of feudalism and reveal the phenomenon of localism, which created a lot of problems in Russia up to Russia Until the time of Peter the Great. Kinship appears as the basis of life, power and legal relations in society