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  Religion and the Decline of Magic: Studies in Popular Beliefs in Sixteenth and Seventeenth-Century England (Paperback) By (author) Keith Thomas

  

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  Short Description for Religion and the Decline of MagicWitchcraft, astrology, divination and every kind of popular magic flourished in England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. This analysis of beliefs held on different levels of English society begins with the collapse of the medieval Church and ends with the changing intellectual atmosphere around 1700.
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  • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
  • Published: 12 December 1991
  • Format: Paperback 880 pages
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  • Categories: History Of Ideas | British & Irish History | Classical History / Classical Civilisation | Early Modern History: C 1450/1500 To C 1700 | Magic, Spells & Alchemy | Religion: General
  • ISBN 13: 9780140137446 ISBN 10: 0140137440
  • Sales rank: 50,947

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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 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' 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.