Valerie A Kivelson: 1 book
Desperate Magic
The Moral Economy of Witchcraft in Seventeenth-Century Russia
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
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...
