Valerie Kivelson, Desperate Magic: The Moral Economy of Witchcraft in Seventeenth-Century Russia (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2013), 349 pp., $79.95. (cloth), $27.95 (paper).

Authors

  • Ronald Hutton Bristol University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1558/pome.v16i1.26443

Keywords:

Witchcraft, Russia, Magic, Gender, Hierarchy, Morality, Trial

Author Biography

  • Ronald Hutton, Bristol University
    Ronald Hutton is Professor of History at the University of Bristol, UK.

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Published

2015-02-06

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Book Reviews

How to Cite

Hutton, R. (2015). Valerie Kivelson, Desperate Magic: The Moral Economy of Witchcraft in Seventeenth-Century Russia (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2013), 349 pp., $79.95. (cloth), $27.95 (paper). Pomegranate, 16(1), 121-124. https://doi.org/10.1558/pome.v16i1.26443