This short conference will celebrate and reflect on Thomas’s achievement as well as publicise new interdisciplinary work on the history of magic and religion. The ‘Drummer of Tedworth’: A Note on Sources. Second Sight in Scotland: Boyle’s Legacy and its Transformation. The Enlightenment Rejection of Magic: Mid- century Scepticism and its Milieu.
This year sees the 50th anniversary of Sir Keith Thomas’s masterpiece, Religion and the Decline of Magic (1971), one of the most significant British historical monographs of the last century. The ‘Drummer of Tedworth’: Conflicting Interpretations and the Problem of Fraud. Due to a limit on numbers only a small audience will be invited to attend the conference in person.
Aim higher.The event will be live streamed from All Souls College, Oxford. Macat's analyses cover 14 different subjects in the humanities and social sciences. English xviii, 716 pages 23 cm Religion & 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. You can find out more about how Thomas' ideas have been challenged and applied - and how his work has impacted on thinkers in other academic disciplines - by exploring further in the Macat Library. More than 50 years after its publication, Religion and the Decline of Magic remains one of the great works of post-war scholarship. His analysis of that period allowed him to claim that social history can answer important questions about changing mentalities. Thomas argues that magic was popular because it offered practical solutions to everyday problems.įew social historians had examined the popular religious beliefs of the 1500s at the time Thomas wrote Religion. In this fascinating and detailed book Religion and the Decline in Magic, Keith Thomas shows how magic, like the medieval Church, offered an explanation for.
Religion and the Decline of Magic examines popular belief in 16th and 17th century England, a key period during which leaders of the Protestant Reformation tried to disentangle magic from religion itself. "There are many works of history that are revered, but few that are loved as Religion and the Decline of Magic is." So says award-winning author of Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel, of historian Keith Thomas' 1971 book. A Macat analysis of Keith Thomas' Religion and the Decline of Magic
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