Review: Religion and the Decline of Magic
User Review - Polenth Blake - GoodreadsYou may want to slap the author for his racism, sexism and other things. However, it does have a lot of information, and is a valuable reference for anyone studying magic and religion in sixteenth and ... Read full review
Review: Religion and the Decline of Magic: Studies in Popular Beliefs in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century England
User Review - Pippa222 - GoodreadsAlthough Keith Thomas has a slight tendency to list this was an extremely interesting book, with much detailed research. Read full review
Review: Religion and the Decline of Magic: Studies in Popular Beliefs in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century England
User Review - Eric_W - GoodreadsThomas sets the stage by describing economic and social conditions. During these two centuries, massive poverty and appalling health were the norm. Most children died before age six and the average ... Read full review
Review: Religion and the Decline of Magic: Studies in Popular Beliefs in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century England
User Review - Mark - GoodreadsFascinating. Read full review
Review: Religion and the Decline of Magic: Studies in Popular Beliefs in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century England
User Review - DoctorM - GoodreadsOne of the great works of social and religious history of the 20th-c. Thomas looks at religion in England--- both "official" and popular religion ---and how over the course of the 1500s and 1600s ... Read full review
Review: Religion and the Decline of Magic: Studies in Popular Beliefs in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century England
User Review - Miriam - GoodreadsThis is more a collection of topical papers than a continuous book. Some essays are stronger/more interesting/more convincing than others. A couple even contradict one another, leading me to suppose ... Read full review
Review: Religion and the Decline of Magic (Penguin History)
User Review - Grace - GoodreadsI was initially a bit daunted by the prospect of reading such a long history book without the comfort of a narrative and the best I thought of it at first was that it was very informative. However ... Read full review
Review: Religion and the Decline of Magic (Penguin History)
User Review - Victoria - GoodreadsProbably every historian of the Reformation (Protestant, Counter-, or Catholic) knows the contents of this book, even if they've never read it. And it says pretty much what everyone thinks it says, in ... Read full review
Review: Religion and the Decline of Magic (Penguin History)
User Review - Jean - GoodreadsI was born and raised in a fairly rural community in Southern England; Dorset in fact which the author specifically mentions. This book addressed questions that I had mulled over for years such as ... Read full review
Review: Religion and the Decline of Magic: Studies in Popular Beliefs in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century England
User Review - GoodreadsThomas does a good job setting up the environment of England in his book in order to help emphasize how intertwined into everyday life the ideas of witchcraft, astrology, fairies, etc. were. He also ...
