RELIGION AND THE DECLINE OF MAGIC - Hardcover

Thomas, Keith.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0297002201 ISBN 13: 9780297002208

Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1971

Synopsis

In this detailed, scholarly and immensely facsinating book, Sir Keith Thomas has analysed the thoughts and practices of an age when the supernatural was such a real and important part of men's lives.

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Review:

Monumental ... with a living treasure on each page, and probably the book that, in my whole life, I've pressed on other people most energetically. (Selected people, of course. They have to care for history, and they need a sense of wonder and a sense of fun.) (Hilary Mantel New York Times)

About the Author:

Keith Thomas is a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. He was formerly President of Corpus Christi College and, before that, Professor of Modern History and Fellow of St John's College. RELIGION AND DECLINE OF MAGIC, his first book, won one of the two Wolfson Literary Awards for History in 1972. He was knighted in 1988 for services to the study of history.

About this edition

• Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
• Publication date: 1971
• ISBN 10: 0297002201
• ISBN 13: 9780297002208
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1