Desperate Magic -- Contents -- List of Maps and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Note on Names and Transliteration -- Maps -- Introduction: The Moral Economy of Desperation in Seventeenth-Century Russia -- 1. Witchcraft Historiography: Russia's Divergence -- 2. "Report on This Matter to Us in Moscow, Fully and in Truth": Documentation and Procedure -- 3. Muscovite Prosaic Magic and the Devil's Pale Shadow -- 4. Love, Sex, and Hierarchy: The Role of Gender in Witchcraft Accusations -- 5. Undivided Spheres: Gender and Idioms of Magic -- 6. "To Treat Me Kindly": Negotiating Excess in Muscovite Hierarchical Relations -- 7. Trials, Justice, and the Logic of Torture -- 8. Witchcraft, Heresy, Treason, Rebellion: Defining Muscovy's Most Heinous Crimes -- The Aftermath: Peter the Great and the Age of Enlightenment -- Appendix A. List of Witchcraft Trials -- Appendix B. List of Laws and Decrees against Witchcraft and Magic -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.