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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... Physicians condemned this habit.1 It was just as well that in strict Galenic theory one of the humours was bound to predominate unnaturally , so te that perfect health was almost by definition unattainable.2 In the seventeenth century ...
... Physicians condemned this habit.1 It was just as well that in strict Galenic theory one of the humours was bound to predominate unnaturally , so te that perfect health was almost by definition unattainable.2 In the seventeenth century ...
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... physicians rose steadily through the period . One modern student has compiled a list of 814 physicians who are known to have been licensed between 1603 and 1643.3 It shows that some towns were relatively well supplied with qualified ...
... physicians rose steadily through the period . One modern student has compiled a list of 814 physicians who are known to have been licensed between 1603 and 1643.3 It shows that some towns were relatively well supplied with qualified ...
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... physicians ' : even ' frugal freeholders of twenty or thirty pounds a year ' had difficulty in finding ' ten shillings to save their lives in cases of danger'.2 The Royal College of Physicians in 1687 ruled that their members should ...
... physicians ' : even ' frugal freeholders of twenty or thirty pounds a year ' had difficulty in finding ' ten shillings to save their lives in cases of danger'.2 The Royal College of Physicians in 1687 ruled that their members should ...
Contents
The Environment | 3 |
RELIGION | 4 |
The Magic of the Medieval Church | 25 |
Copyright | |
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