Religion and the Decline of Magic: Studies in Popular Beliefs in Sixteenthand Seventeenth Century England by Keith Thomas

Religion and the Decline of Magic: Studies in Popular Beliefs in Sixteenthand Seventeenth Century England

Keith Thomas

853 pages first pub 1971 (editions)

nonfiction history philosophy religion informative slow-paced
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Witchcraft, astrology, divination and every kind of popular magic flourished in England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, from the belief that a blessed amulet could prevent the assaults of the Devil to the use of the same charms to ...

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