Desperate magic : the moral economy of witchcraft in seventeenth-century Russia

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In the courtrooms of seventeenth-century Russia, the great majority of those accused of witchcraft were male, in sharp contrast to the profile of accused witches across Catholic and Protestant Europe in the same period. While European courts targeted and executed overwhelmingly female suspects, ofte...

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Main Author: Kivelson, Valerie A. (Valerie Ann) (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2013
Subjects:
Witchcraft > Russia > History > 17th century.
Magic > Social aspects > Russia > History > 17th century.
Trials (Witchcraft) > Russia > History > 17th century.
Russia > Social conditions > 17th century.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Witchcraft historiography : Russia's divergence
  • "Report on this matter to us in Moscow, fully and in truth" : documentation and procedure
  • Muscovite prosaic magic and the devil's pale shadow
  • Love, sex, and hierarchy : the role of gender in witchcraft accusations
  • Undivided spheres : gender and idioms of magic
  • "To treat me kindly" : negotiating excess in Muscovite hierarchical relations
  • Trials, justice and the logic of torture.

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