C.S. Watkins, History and the Supernatural in Medieval England (Cambridge 2008). Week 4: ... Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic: Studies in Popular Beliefs in Sixteenth and. Seventeenth Century England (Oxford University Press, 1997). Hill, English Bible and the Seventeenth-Century Revolution (Penguin 1995).

Plus, we recommend dipping into this fascinating book on the cultural and social history of sixteenth-century England: Thomas, K. (1991) ​Religion and the Decline of Magic: Studies in Popular Beliefs in. Sixteenth and Seventeenth- Century England​. London: Penguin Books. Questions to keep in mind whilst reading are:.

John's College, whose own magisterial study of popular beliefs in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Religion and the Decline of Magic, appeared a year later.1 The treatment of witchcraft in the latter book, where it constituted a major theme, overlapped with Macfarlane's, and one can imagine how ideas about the  ...

15 Malcolm Gaskill, Witchcraft: A Very Short Introduction, (Oxford University Press , 2010), pp. 3-4. 16 Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic: Studies in Popular Beliefs in Sixteenth and. Seventeenth-Century England, p. 519. 17 Wolfgang Behringer, Witches and Witch-Hunts: A Global History, (Polity Press, 2004), p. 11.

Religion and the Decline of Magic: Studies in Popular. Beliefs in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-century England. New York: Oxford. University Press. Trilling, Lionel (1972). Sincerity and Authenticity. Cambridge, MA: Harvard. University Press. Trumpener, Katie (2009). Critical Response I. Paratext and Genre System:.

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Dec 16, 2003 ... anthropology to European witchcraft in the books each wrote, Reli- gion and the Decline of Magic and Witchcraft in Tudor and Stuart. England. .... of popular suspicion,” that is, maleficium, antedated the witch-hunts .... of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries,” in Religion, the Reformation and Social.

(Entzauberung der Welt) which had begun with the old Hebrew prophets and, in conjunction with Hellenistic scientific thought, had repudiated all magical means to salvation as superstition and sin, came here [in Protestant. Puritanism] to its logical conclusion…there was not only no magical means of attaining grace of God ...

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Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic: Studies of Popular Beliefs in Sixteenth and Seventeenth. Century England (London: Penguin Press, 1971), and Valerie I. J. Flint, The Rise of Magic in Early. Medieval Europe (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1991). For a detailed historical presentation ...

41 K. Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic: Studies in Popular Beliefs in Siaeenth and Seventeenth Century England (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1973). 42 P. Marshall, Cuba Libre: Breaking the Chains (Boston: Faber and Faber, 1987 ) at 80. 43 Houlbrooke, supra, note 36 at 22-23. 44 R.D. Laing, The Politics of ...

Wandering Spirits: Traditional Belief & Folklore in Early Modern Europe, edited by Kathryn A. Edwards. (Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. , 2007). 8 Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic: Studies in Popular Beliefs in Sixteenth and. Seventeenth Century England (London: Penguin, 2003), 5.

good & honest harmless witches or wisards, who by good words, by hallowed herbes and. 1 See K. Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic – Studies in Popular Beliefs in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century. England (paperback ed.; London: Penguin, 1991), chapter 9; E. Cameron, Enchanted Europe – Superstition,.

Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic: Studies in Popular Beliefs in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century. England (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1971), 603. 16. Thomas, Religion, 587-9. 17. Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, “The Spectral Turn,” in Spectral America: Phantoms and the National Imagination, ed.

1603. A Survey of London. Rpt in 2 vols, ed. Charles Lethbridge Kingsford. Oxford: Clarendon, 1908. Thomas, Keith. 1973. Religion and the Decline of Magic: Studies in Popular Beliefs in Sixteenth- and. Seventeenth-Century England. Harmondsworth: Penguin. Vergil, Polydore. 1950. The Anglica Historia, A. D. 1485-1537.

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40 Thomas, Keith, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Studies in Popular Beliefs in Sixteenth and. Seventeenth Century England., London: Penguin Books, 1971. 41 ibid., p. 521. Thomas asserts that The Papal Bull was issued in Germany, and Malleus Maleficarum published sixteen times before 1700, and eleven times only  ...

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