Russian Studies Research Seminar
26 November 2018, 6-9 pm, Project Room, 50 George Square.
Witchcraft and Society in Early Modern Russia: Why Witchcraft and Magical Spells Provide all the Answers to Early Modern Russian History.
A blurb about the speaker: Professor Val Kivelson is Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of History at the University of Michigan. Her research has helped to transform our picture of early modern Muscovy by challenging many assumptions concerning the relationship between society and the state. She is the author of several books on early modern Russia, including: Desperate Magic: The Moral Economy of Witchcraft in Seventeenth-Century Russia (2013). Her Cartographies of Tsardom: the Land and its Meanings in Seventeenth-Century Russia (2006) was awarded the 2007 Roland Bainton History & Theology Prize by the Sixteenth Century Society.
Enquieries: alexandra.smith@ed.ac.uk