Author ORCID Identifier
Andrii Shevchuk, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9023-5214
Oksana Markevych, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0457-8697
Abstract
The article examines the religious factor in the imperial judicial policy on the territory of Right-Bank Ukraine (1797-1830). The transformation of the region's judicial system after its incorporation into the Russian Empire is analyzed through the prism of confessional relations. On the basis of archival materials and published sources, the peculiarities of the functioning of judicial institutions in the context of religious stratification of society are revealed. The specifics of staffing of judicial institutions by representatives of different denominations, particularly the dominance of the Catholic szlachta (nobility) in the county and major courts, are highlighted. The author traces the evolution of the religious factor in municipal justice from the confessional separation of judicial institutions to the introduction of unified magistrates with proportional representation of Christian and Jewish communities. Particular attention is paid to the analysis of the interaction between the imperial policy of preserving Catholic influence in the judiciary and the gradual integration of the region into the general imperial legal space. The study demonstrates that the religious factor was an essential tool for balancing traditional social and legal practices and modernization processes in the judicial system of Right-Bank Ukraine.
Recommended Citation
Shevchuk, Andrii and Markevych, Oksana
(2025)
"The Religious Factor in the Imperial Judicial Policy of the Right-Bank Ukraine (1797-1830),"
Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe: Vol. 45
:
Iss.
4
, Article 9.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.55221/2693-2229.2609
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/ree/vol45/iss4/9
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