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100	1		_aKivelson, Valerie A. _q(Valerie Ann), _eauthor. _91299
245	1	0	_aDesperate magic : _bthe moral economy of witchcraft in seventeenth-century Russia / _cValerie Kivelson.
246	3	0	_aMoral economy of witchcraft in seventeenth-century Russia
264		1	_aIthaca : _bCornell University Press, _c[2013]
264		4	_c©2013
300			_a1 online resource (xv, 349 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : _billustrations (some color), maps
336			_aText _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aComputermedien _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aOnline Resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 308-338) and index.
505	0		_aWitchcraft historiography : Russia's divergence -- "Report on this matter to us in Moscow, fully and in truth" : documentation and procedure -- Muscovite prosaic magic and the devil's pale shadow -- Love, sex, and hierarchy : the role of gender in witchcraft accusations -- Undivided spheres : gender and idioms of magic -- "To treat me kindly" : negotiating excess in Muscovite hierarchical relations -- Trials, justice and the logic of torture -- Witchcraft, heresy, treason, rebellion : defining Muscovy's most heinous crimes.
520			_aIn 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 home-grown potions. Instead of Satanism or heresy, the primary concern in witchcraft testimony in Russia involved efforts to use magic to subvert, mitigate, or avenge the harsh conditions of patriarchy, serfdom, and social hierarchy. Broadly comparative and richly illustrated with color plates, Desperate Magic places the trials of witches in the context of early modern Russian law, religion, and society. Piecing together evidence from trial records to illuminate some of the central puzzles of Muscovite history, Kivelson explores the interplay among the testimony of accusers, the leading questions of the interrogators, and the confessions of the accused. Assembled, they create a picture of a shared moral vision of the world that crossed social divides. Because of the routine use of torture in extracting and shaping confessions, Kivelson addresses methodological and ideological questions about the Muscovite courts' equation of pain and truth, questions with continuing resonance in the world today. Within a moral economy that paired unquestioned hierarchical inequities with expectations of reciprocity, magic and suspicions of magic emerged where those expectations were most egregiously violated. Witchcraft in Russia surfaces as one of the ways that oppression was contested by ordinary people scrambling to survive in a fiercely inequitable world. Masters and slaves, husbands and wives, and officers and soldiers alike believed there should be limits to exploitation and saw magic deployed at the junctures where hierarchical order veered into violent excess.--Amazon.com.
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650		0	_zRussia _xHistory _y17th century. _927797
650		0	_zRussia _xHistory _y17th century. _927797
650		0	_xSocial aspects _zRussia _xHistory _y17th century. _927798
650		0	_zRussia _xHistory _y17th century. _927797
651		0	_aRussia _xSocial conditions _y17th century. _927799
655		4	_aElectronic books.
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856	4	0	_uhttps://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb40035 _zVolltext
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653			_aWitchcraft
653			_aWitch hunting
653			_aMagic
653			_aTrials (Witchcraft)
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