Questions and Answers from the Moscow Church Council (Stoglav) of 1551ģ.7. Procedures for the Courts and Affairs of Towns under Magdeburg Law under the Polish Crown (1559)ģ.4. Excerpts from Charles V's 1532 Constitutio Criminalis Carolina and the 1559 Polish Versionģ.3. The Domostroi: A household handbook of the mid-sixteenth centuryģ.2. Russian Orthodox penitential listings involving sorcery and magic (fourteenth-early nineteenth centuries) Byzantine Church Law and Its Echoes in RussiaĮxcerpt from a court case from the late 1660s containing a fragment of the KormchaiaĬhurch Statute of Iaroslav the Wise (late twelfth/early thirteenth century) Laws and Guidelines concerning the Prosecution of Witchcraft, Late Twelfth Century to 1885ģ.1. Political Sorcery against the Prussian King (1760)ģ. Hetman Ivan Briukhovetskii's Burning of Witches (1666)Ģ.13. Grigorii Kotoshikhin and Samuel Collins on the Alleged Poisoning or Bewitchment of Tsar Aleksei Mikhailovich's First Betrothed, and on Bewitchment at Weddings (1647)Ģ.12. Sorcery Allegations from Ivan the Terrible's Correspondence with Prince Kurbskii and Kurbskii's History of the Grand Prince of MoscowĢ.11. The Vicious Sorcerer Eleazar Bomelius Described in a Russian ChronicleĢ.9. Jerome Horsey on Witchcraft at the Court of Ivan IV (the Terrible)Ģ.8. Ivan Peresvetov's 1549 Tale about Sorcery at Court in the Final Days of the Byzantine Empire (Excerpts from the "Greater Petition")Ģ.7. The Great Moscow Fire and the Sprinkling of Human Hearts by the Tsar's Grandmother, Anna Glinskaia (1547)Ģ.6. Trials of Maksim the Greek for Treason, Heresy, and Sorcery (1525 & 1531)Ģ.5. Witchcraft Accusations against Grand Princess Solomonia Saburova (1525)Ģ.4. Witchcraft Accusations against Grand Princess Sofia Paleologue (1497)Ģ.3. The Death of Maria of Tver, Ivan III's First Wife, by Witchcraft (1467)Ģ.2. Witchcraft and Politics in Muscovy and the HetmanateĢ.1. Alimpii and the Leper Who Consulted Magicians (Kyivan Patericon)Ģ. Bishop Serapion of Vladimir Condemns Belief in Witchcraft (1274)ġ.4. "Maybe, but God Knows": Sorcery in the Novgorodian Chronicle (1227)ġ.3. Pagan Soothsayers and Magicians in the Primary Chronicleġ.2. Early Accounts of Witchcraft, Sorcery, and Magic in Medieval Rusġ.1. Part I: HISTORICAL EVOLUTION, LAW, AND PROSECUTIONġ. The extended documentary commentaries also explore the shifting boundaries and fraught political relations between Russia and Ukraine. 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 documents present a rich panorama of daily life and reveal the extraordinary power of magical words.Įditors Valerie A.
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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. Witchcraft in Russia and Ukraine, 1000–1900 weaves scholarly commentary with never-before-published primary source materials translated from Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian. This sourcebook provides the first systematic overview of witchcraft laws and trials in Russia and Ukraine from medieval times to the late nineteenth century.