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

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Religion and the Decline of Magic: Studies in Popular Beliefs in Sixteenth and Seventeenth-Century England - Thomas, Keith, Sir
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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's classic analysis of beliefs held on every level of English society begins with the collapse ...

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Religion and the Decline of Magic: Studies in Popular Beliefs in Sixteenth and Seventeenth-Century England 2003, Penguin Books Ltd, London

ISBN-13: 9780140137446

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