Everyday Life in Russian History: Quotidian Studies in Honor of Daniel Kaiser

Torture, Truth, and Embodying the Intangible in Muscovite Witchcraft Trials

Everyday Life in Russian History: Quotidian Studies in Honor of Daniel Kaiser. Gary Marker, Joan Neuberger, Marshall Poe, and Susan Rupp, eds. Bloomington, IN: Slavica Publishers, 2010, 359–73. E E E Torture, Truth, and Embodying the Intangible in Muscovite Witchcraft Trials Valerie Kivelson …E FE GRIJQE IOLIJQE IOE PTQMK9E KE QJSE NVIJLE PTQFQU9EIOEMOHOEIOLIJQ8
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