![]() He was knighted in 1988 for services to the study of history. Religion and the Decline of Magic, his first book, won one of the two Wolfson Literary Awards for History in 1972. ![]() He was formerly President of Corpus Christi College and, before that, Professor of Modern History and Fellow of St John’s College. Keith Thomas is a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. Please contact us if you would like more details or to see more images of Religion and the Decline of Magic. 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. ![]() ![]() At the same time the Protestant Reformation attempted to take the magic out of religion, and scientists were developing new explanations of the universe. ![]() Description Religion and the Decline of Magic Synopsis:Įvery kind of popular magic flourished in England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. ![]()
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