A sourcebook.

Auteurs: Valerie A. Kivelson & Christine D. Worobec (editors)

Jaar: 2020

Druk: niet genoemd

ISBN: 9781501750656 / 1501750658

Taal: English 

506 pagina's

Uitgeverij: Norther Illinois University Press

Paperback, nieuw.

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This sourcebook provides the first systematic overview of witchcraft laws and trials in Russia and Ukraine from medieval times to the late nineteenth century. Witchcraft in Russia and Ukraine, 1000-1900 weaves scholarly commentary with never-before-published primary source materials translated from Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian. These sources include the earliest references to witchcraft and sorcery, secular and religious laws regarding witchcraft and possession, full trial transcripts, and a wealth of magical spells. The documents present a rich panorama of daily life and reveal the extraordinary power of magical words.

Editors Valeric A. Kivelson and Christine D. Worobec present new analyses of the workings and evolution of legal systems, the interplay and tensions between church and state, and the prosaic concerns of the women and men involved in witchcraft proceedings. The extended documentary commentaries also explore the shifting boundaries and fraught political relations between Russia and Ukraine.

"This book is the first of its kind. In short, it fills a significant gap in the area of witchcraft studies." - Michael D. Bailey, Iowa State University, author of Fearful Spirits, Reasoned Follies.

"This is a fabulous collection of documents, many of which have never seen the light of day even in their native language, but now come to print directly from archives mediated only by expert selection and translation. A huge amount of strife-filled past comes alive in these texts, and the transcripts or synopses of inquests and processes, constituting the written record, make for compelling reading." - David Goldfrank, Georgetown University (ret.), editor and translator of Nil Sorsky.

Valerie A. Kivelson is Thomas N. Tentler Collegiate Professor of History and Arthur F Thurnau Professor of History at the University of Michigan. She is the author of Cartographies of Tsardom, Desperate Magic, and Autocracy in the Provinces.

Christine D. Worobec is Distinguished Research Professor Emerita at Northern Illinois University. She is the author of Possessed and Peasant Russia.

NIU series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian studies, a series edited by christine d. Worobec.

Zoekwoorden: Oost-Europees, Russian, Soviet, russisch, rusland, oekraine, magie, occult, boek, kopen, bestellen, winkel, webshop, hekserij, geschiedenis