Keith thomas magic6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() Alan Macfarlane of King’s College, Cambridge, assesses. Paul Slack of Exeter College, Oxford, discusses the book’s importance to the historian. ![]() This year, the publishers, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, are re-issuing it in its fourth impression. However Augustine says wrong to demand answers. In this detailed, scholarly and immensely fascinating book, Sir Keith Thomas has analysed the thoughts and practices of an age when the supernatural was. Magic tapping into Gods power unacceptable, cannot be constrained to act but can be asked. In this fascinating and detailed book, Keith Thomas shows how magic, like the medieval Church, offered an explanation for misfortune and a means of redress in. ![]() Magic displaced by science Or growing out of what could be seen as magic The witch craze. A pioneer in the field of social history and an advocate of the need for historians to keep abreast of developments in the social sciences, Thomas was particularly associated with the use of the techniques of social anthropology. Ten years ago, Keith Thomas’s book Religion and the Decline of Magic was published. Keith Thomas, magic of Catholicism disappears during Reformation. ![]()
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