Author: Natalia Novikova

Marianna Muravyeva is a Professor and Marie Curie Senior Research Fellow at Oxford Brookes University, UK, and a senior researcher at the Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg, Russia. She specializes in the history of crime, legal history, gender history, and the history of sexuality in early modern Europe. Her publications include the edited volumes Gender in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe (2013); Shame, Blame, and Culpability: Crime and Violence in the Modern State (2012); and Bytovoe nasilie v istorii rossiiskoi povsednevnosti [Violence in the history of Russian everyday life] (2012).Natalia Novikova is an independent scholar. She received her doctorate from Yaroslavl” State Pedagogical University, Yaroslavl, Russia, and worked as an Associate Professor of History for more than 15 years for this university. She has published a number of articles on Russian women”s movements, including “Early Historical Accounts of the Russian Women”s Movement: a political dialogue or a dispute?” in Women”s History Review 20(4) (2011).