Desperate Magic: The Moral Economy of Witchcraft in Seventeenth-Century Russia by Kivelson, Valerie

Desperate Magic: The Moral Economy of Witchcraft in Seventeenth-Century Russia

In early modern Europe, thousands of women were burned as witches during the period of the witch...
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Author: Valerie Kivelson
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Language: Russian
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Desperate Magic: The Moral Economy of Witchcraft in Seventeenth-Century Russia by Kivelson, Valerie

Desperate Magic: The Moral Economy of Witchcraft in Seventeenth-Century Russia

$107.60

Desperate Magic: The Moral Economy of Witchcraft in Seventeenth-Century Russia

$107.60
Author: Valerie Kivelson
Format: Hardcover
Language: Russian
In early modern Europe, thousands of women were burned as witches during the period of the witch hunts. From the court records of seventeenth-century Russia a very different picture emerges. The great majority of those accused of witchcraft were men. Broadly comparative, Desperate Magic by Valerie Kivelson is the first sustained study of seventeenth-century Russian witch trials. The book uses trial evidence to illuminate some of the central puzzles of Muscovite history. The routine use of torture in extracting and shaping confessions raises methodological and moral questions with continuing resonance in the world today. A major finding of this book is that witchcraft was not a marginal practice in early modern Russia. It was practiced by all ranks of society, from serf to tsaritsa at the same time that it was severely condemned and punished. Testimony from these cases lets us see into the emotional lives of illiterate women and men of the Russian past. This analysis shows how the State and relations of power were inscribed into everyday practices, and magic was used as a defense by ordinary people scrambling to survive in a fiercely inequitable world.

Author: Valerie Kivelson
Publisher: Academic Studies Press
Published: 12/01/2020
Pages: 482
Binding Type: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781644694503
Language: Russian
Audience: Young Adult

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