Desperate Magic: The Moral Economy of Witchcraft in Seventeenth-Century Russia PDF
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This content downloaded from 132.239.1.231 on Tue, 24 Jan 2017 09:16:36 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms DESPERATE MAGIC This content downloaded from 132.239.1.231 on Tue, 24 Jan 2017 09:16:36 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms This content downloaded from 132.239.1.231 on Tue, 24 Jan 2017 09:16:36 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms VALERIE KIVELSON DESPERATE MAGIC Th e Moral Economy of Witchcraft in Seventeenth-Century Russia CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS ITHACA AND LONDON This content downloaded from 132.239.1.231 on Tue, 24 Jan 2017 09:16:36 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms Copyright © 2013 by Cornell University All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in a review, this book, or parts thereof, must not be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the publisher. For information, address Cornell University Press, Sage House, 512 East State Street, Ithaca, New York 14850. First published 2013 by Cornell University Press First printing, Cornell Paperbacks, 2013 Printed in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Kivelson, Valerie A. (Valerie Ann), author. Desperate magic: the moral economy of witchcraft in seventeenth-century Russia / Valerie Kivelson. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-8014-5146-1 (cloth : alk. paper) ISBN 978-0-8014-7916-8 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Witchcraft—Russia—History—17th century. 2. Magic— Social aspects—Russia—History—17th century. 3. Trials (Witchcraft)—Russia—History—17th century. 4. Russia— Social conditions—17th century. I. Title. BF1584.R9K58 2013 133.4'3094709032—dc23 2013016811 Cornell University Press strives to use environmentally responsible suppliers and materials to the fullest extent possible in the publishing of its books. Such materials include vegetable-based, low-VOC inks and acid-free papers that are recycled, totally chlorine-free, or partly composed of nonwood fi bers. For further information, visit our website at www.cornellpress.cornell.edu. Cloth printing 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Paperback printing 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 This content downloaded from 132.239.1.231 on Tue, 24 Jan 2017 09:16:36 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms With love and gratitude, I dedicate this book to Myron and Lynne Hofer and to my aunts, Nina Auerbach and Ellie Palais This content downloaded from 132.239.1.231 on Tue, 24 Jan 2017 09:16:36 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms This content downloaded from 132.239.1.231 on Tue, 24 Jan 2017 09:16:36 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms Contents List of Maps and Figures ix Acknowledgments xi List of Abbreviations xiv Note on Names and Transliteration xvii Maps xviii Introduction: Th e Moral Economy of Desperation in Seventeenth-Century Russia 1 1. Witchcraft Historiography: Russia’s Divergence 13 2. “Report on Th is Matter to Us in Moscow, Fully and in Truth”: Documentation and Procedure 38 3. Muscovite Prosaic Magic and the Devil’s Pale Shadow 52 4. Love, Sex, and Hierarchy: Th e Role of Gender in Witchcraft Accusations 83 5. Undivided Spheres: Gender and Idioms of Magic 127 6. “To Treat Me Kindly”: Negotiating Excess in Muscovite Hierarchical Relations 168 7. Trials, Justice, and the Logic of Torture 198 This content downloaded from 132.239.1.231 on Tue, 24 Jan 2017 09:16:11 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms 8. Witchcraft, Heresy, Treason, Rebellion: Defi ning Muscovy’s Most Heinous Crimes 233 Th e Aftermath: Peter the Great and the Age of Enlightenment 256 Appendix A. List of Witchcraft Trials 261 Appendix B. List of Laws and Decrees against Witchcraft and Magic 273 Notes 275 Bibliography 308 Index 339 VIII U CONTENTS This content downloaded from 132.239.1.231 on Tue, 24 Jan 2017 09:16:11 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms Maps and Figures MAPS Map of European Russia showing locations of witchcraft trials xix Map of Siberia showing locations of witchcraft trials xx FIGURES Frequency of witchcraft trials in fi ve-year intervals, 1601–1700 31 Burning v srube, from Listevoi letopisnyi svod (see also plate 1) 41 Th eofi lus and the Devil, fresco, Iaroslavl', 1716 55 Kleimo: Detail from the Life of St. Nicholas: St. Nicholas exorcises a devil from a well, beginning of the sixteenth century, Moscow School (see also plate 2) 56 “Baba Iaga and the Bald Man,” fi rst quarter of the eighteenth century 85 “Baba Iaga and the Crocodile,” fi rst quarter of the eighteenth century 86 Image of a witch embracing a devil, by Ulrich Molitor, c. 1490 88 “A Group of Witches (Hexensabbath II),” by Hans Baldung Grien, 1514 (see also plate 3) 89 An illicit scene of witchcraft at work, from Semyon Vasil'ev syn Aigustov’s magical notebook, 1680s 91 Vasilii Maksimov, Th e Arrival of a Sorcerer at a Peasant Wedding, 1875 (see also plate 4) 94 This content downloaded from 132.239.1.231 on Tue, 24 Jan 2017 09:15:46 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms
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