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:Inglés
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, [2013]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Witchcraft.
Trials (Witchcraft)
Social conditions
Magic > Social aspects.
HISTORY > Europe > Russia & the Former Soviet Union.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT > Parapsychology > General.
Proces (Sorcellerie) > Russie > Histoire > 17e siecle.
Sorcellerie > Russie > Histoire > 17e siecle.
Trials (Witchcraft) > Russia > History > 17th century.
Magic > Social aspects > Russia > History > 17th century.
Witchcraft > Russia > History > 17th century.
Russia.
Russia > Social conditions > 17th century.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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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