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New PDF release: Religion and the Decline of Magic: Studies in Popular

By Keith Thomas

Witchcraft, astrology, divination and each form of well known magic flourished in England through the 16th and 17th centuries, from the assumption blessed amulet may hinder the attacks of the satan to using an identical charms to recuperate stolen items. even as the Protestant Reformation tried to take the magic out of faith, and scientists have been constructing new causes of the universe. Keith Thomas's vintage research of ideals hung on each point of English society starts off with the cave in of the medieval Church and ends with the altering highbrow surroundings round 1700, whilst technological know-how and rationalism started to problem the older structures of belief.

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