Religion and the Decline of MagicReligion & the Decline of Magic is Keith Thomas's classic history of the magical beliefs held by people on every level of English society in the 16th and 17th centuries and how these beliefs were a part of the religious and scientific assumptions of the time. It is not only a major historical and religious work, but a thoroughly enjoyable book filled with fascinating facts and original insights into an area of human nature that remains controversial today- the belief in the supernatural that still continues in the modern world. |
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Page 73
... Catholics is uncertain , but the figure for Yorkshire in 1604 has been estimated at only one and a half per cent . It is , however , a reminder that the devotional attitudes of the Catholic Middle Ages still lingered . The implications ...
... Catholics is uncertain , but the figure for Yorkshire in 1604 has been estimated at only one and a half per cent . It is , however , a reminder that the devotional attitudes of the Catholic Middle Ages still lingered . The implications ...
Page 406
... Catholic priests prophesied that Popery would return and the Mass would last ' for ever and aye ' . A ' Golden Day ' would see the downfall of Elizabeth and the return of the monasteries . As a Catholic tailor confessed in 1602 , ' it ...
... Catholic priests prophesied that Popery would return and the Mass would last ' for ever and aye ' . A ' Golden Day ' would see the downfall of Elizabeth and the return of the monasteries . As a Catholic tailor confessed in 1602 , ' it ...
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... Catholic almost as effectively as belief in the Mass or the Papal Supremacy . In due course , some Catholic theologians also became sceptical of the possi- bility of ghosts , at least of those in bodily form , but few of the theorists ...
... Catholic almost as effectively as belief in the Mass or the Papal Supremacy . In due course , some Catholic theologians also became sceptical of the possi- bility of ghosts , at least of those in bodily form , but few of the theorists ...
Contents
The Environment | 3 |
RELIGION | 4 |
The Magic of the Medieval Church | 25 |
Copyright | |
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