Religion and the Decline of Magic
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Religion and the Decline of Magic: Studies in Popular Beliefs in Sixteenth and Seventeenth-Century England
By Keith ThomasTwelve years later the rumour cropped up again, in the mouth of a Radnorshire vagrant named Thomas Vaughan, who was examined at Oxford in May 1599. According to him, a substitute child had been put to death in King Edward's place, ...
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Religion and the Decline of Magic
By Simon Young, Helen KillickKeith Thomas's classic study of all forms of popular belief has been influential for so long now that it is difficult to remember how revolutionary it seemed when it first appeared.
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Religion and the Decline of Magic
By Simon Young, Helen KillickHis analysis of how deeply held beliefs in witchcraft, spirits, and magic evolved during the Reformation remains one of the great works of post-war scholarship.
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Religion and the Decline of Magic: Studies in Popular Beliefs in Sixteenth and Seventeenth-Century England
By Keith ThomasPresents an analysis of the religious beliefs of English society in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, including the use of popular magic, and the role the Protestant Reformation played in taking magic out of religion.
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Religion and the Decline of Magic
By Keith ThomasReligion & the Decline of Magic is Keith Thomas's classic history of the magical beliefs held by people on every level of English society in the 16th and 17th centuries and how these beliefs were a part of the religious and scientific ...
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Religion and the Decline of Magic
By Keith Vivian ThomasHexerei.