Desperate magic : the moral economy of witchcraft in seventeenth-century Russia / Valerie Kivelson.

Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2013.

xv, 349 pages, 16 pages of plates : col. ill. ; 24 cm

Witchcraft 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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.