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Religion and the Decline of Magic: Studies in Popular Beliefs in Sixteenth and Seventeenth-Century England (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780140137446)
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xWitchcraft, astrology, divination, and every kind of popular magic flourished in England during the 16th and 17th centuries, from the belief that a blessed amulet could prevent the assaults of the Devil to the use of the same charms to recover stolen goods. At the same time the Protestant Reformation attempted to take the magic out of religion, and scientists were developing new explanations of the universe. Keith Thomas's classic analysis of beliefs held on every level of English society begins with the collapse of the medieval Church and ends with the changing intellectual atmosphere around 1700, when science and rationalism began to challenge the older systems of belief.
Author: Keith Thomas
ISBN-10: 0140137440
ISBN-13: 9780140137446
Publisher: Penguin Group
Language: English
Published: 01/01/2003
Pages: 880
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.00w x 1.70d
Author: Keith Thomas
ISBN-10: 0140137440
ISBN-13: 9780140137446
Publisher: Penguin Group
Language: English
Published: 01/01/2003
Pages: 880
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.00w x 1.70d
By Keith Thomas
xKeith Thomas is a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. He was formerly President of Corpus Christi College and, before that, Professor of Modern History and Fellow of St John's College. He was knighted in 1988 for services to the study of history.
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