[PDF.03sl] Desperate Magic: The Moral Economy of Witchcraft in Seventeenth-Century Russia

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

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 | #1627163 in Books |  Valerie Kivelson |  2013-10-02 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.22 x.89 x6.21l,1.46 | File type: PDF | 376 pages

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| who already have a good sense of what Russia was all about|By Lady Nijo|For professional and amateur lovers of history, who already have a good sense of what Russia was all about, this book gives us some fascinating glimpses into a phenomenon that was not really on the periphery of everyday life in that puzzling and fascinating country. Well written and well researched, Prof| || "Kivelson has produced a thorough study of witchcraft trials in 17th-century Russia that draws on over 200 court cases and a wealth of scholarship unavailable in English. She employs the concept of 'moral economy' to emphasize

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, often on charges of compacting with the devil, the tsars' courts vigorously pursued men and some women accused of practicing more down-to-earth magic, using poetic spells and h...

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