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

by Valerie A. Kivelson

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801479169
• ISBN13: 9780801479168
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher