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Ukrainian Witchcraft Trials : Volhynia, Podolia, and Ruthenia, 17th–18th Centuries / Kateryna Dysa.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Budapest ; New York : Central European University Press, [2020]Copyright date: ©2020Description: 1 online resource (264 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9786155053122
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 133.4/309477 23
LOC classification:
  • MLCM 2022/40253 (B)
  • BF1584.U38 D97 2020
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Constructing the Ukrainian Witchcraft Trial -- Chapter 2 Ukrainian Orthodox Demonology: The Learned Elite and Perceptions of the Devil and Witches -- Chapter 3 Beyond the Trials, or the Anatomy of Witchcraft Accusations -- Chapter 4 A Case of Witchcraft and Infanticide in Szczurowczyky -- Further Romanticization, Forgetting, and Resurrection of Ukrainian Witches: An Afterword -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: Ukrainian Witchcraft Trials is an analysis of early modern witchcraft trials and legal procedures in Ukrainian lands, along with an examination of quantitative data drawn from the different trials. Kateryna Dysa first describes the ideological background of the tribunals based on works written by priests and theologians that reflect attitudes towards the devil and witches. The main focus of her work, however, is the process leading to witchcraft accusations. From the stories of participants of the trials she shows what led people to enunciate first suspicions then accusations of witchcraft. Finally, she presents a microhistory from one Volhynian village, comparing attitudes towards two "female crimes" in the Ukrainian courts. The study is based on archival research together with previously published witch trials transcripts. Dysa approaches the trials as indications of belief and practice, attempting to understand the actors involved rather than dismiss or condemn them. She takes care to situate Ukrainian witchcraft and its accompanying trials in a broader European context, with comparisons to some African cases as well.
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Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Constructing the Ukrainian Witchcraft Trial -- Chapter 2 Ukrainian Orthodox Demonology: The Learned Elite and Perceptions of the Devil and Witches -- Chapter 3 Beyond the Trials, or the Anatomy of Witchcraft Accusations -- Chapter 4 A Case of Witchcraft and Infanticide in Szczurowczyky -- Further Romanticization, Forgetting, and Resurrection of Ukrainian Witches: An Afterword -- Bibliography -- Index

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Ukrainian Witchcraft Trials is an analysis of early modern witchcraft trials and legal procedures in Ukrainian lands, along with an examination of quantitative data drawn from the different trials. Kateryna Dysa first describes the ideological background of the tribunals based on works written by priests and theologians that reflect attitudes towards the devil and witches. The main focus of her work, however, is the process leading to witchcraft accusations. From the stories of participants of the trials she shows what led people to enunciate first suspicions then accusations of witchcraft. Finally, she presents a microhistory from one Volhynian village, comparing attitudes towards two "female crimes" in the Ukrainian courts. The study is based on archival research together with previously published witch trials transcripts. Dysa approaches the trials as indications of belief and practice, attempting to understand the actors involved rather than dismiss or condemn them. She takes care to situate Ukrainian witchcraft and its accompanying trials in a broader European context, with comparisons to some African cases as well.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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