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

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

Valerie A. Kivelson

349 pages first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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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 targe...

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