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Desperate Magic

- The Moral Economy of Witchcraft in Seventeenth-Century Russia
Af: Valerie Kivelson Engelsk Hardback

Desperate Magic

- The Moral Economy of Witchcraft in Seventeenth-Century Russia
Af: Valerie Kivelson Engelsk Hardback
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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.
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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.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 482
ISBN-13: 9781644694503
Indbinding: Hardback
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ISBN-10: 1644694506
Kategori: Heksekunst
Udg. Dato: 1 dec 2020
Længde: 34mm
Bredde: 162mm
Højde: 235mm
Forlag: Academic Studies Press
Oplagsdato: 1 dec 2020
Forfatter(e): Valerie Kivelson
Forfatter(e) Valerie Kivelson

Kategori Heksekunst

ISBN-13 9781644694503

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Hardback

Sider 482

Udgave

Længde 34mm

Bredde 162mm

Højde 235mm

Udg. Dato 1 dec 2020

Oplagsdato 1 dec 2020

Forlag Academic Studies Press