Keith Thomas (1) (1933–)
Autor(a) de Religion and the Decline of Magic : Studies in popular beliefs in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England
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About the Author
Sir Keith Thomas is a highly regarded historian of early modern Britain. His classic works include Religion and the Decline of Magic and Man and the Natural World.
Obras por Keith Thomas
Religion and the Decline of Magic : Studies in popular beliefs in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England (1971) 1,376 exemplares
Changing Conceptions of National Biography: The Oxford DNB in Historical Perspective (2005) 6 exemplares
Vergangenheit, Zukunft, Lebensalter. Zeitvorstellungen im England der frühen Neuzeit (1984) 3 exemplares
FICH-053 O DILEMA HUMANO 1 exemplar
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Conhecimento Comum
- Nome canónico
- Thomas, Keith
- Nome legal
- Thomas, Keith Vivian
- Data de nascimento
- 1933-01-02
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- UK
- Local de nascimento
- Wick, Glamorgan, Wales, UK
- Educação
- Barry County Grammar School
Balliol College, Oxford University (B.A.|1955) - Ocupações
- professor of modern history
general editor, Past Masters series (Oxford University Press)
general editor, Oxford Studies in Social History (Clarendon Press)
consultant editor, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography - Relações
- Thomas, Valerie (wife)
- Organizações
- Oxford University (All Souls, fellow, 1955-1957, 2001-)
Oxford University (St. John's, fellow, 1957)
Oxford University (Reader in Modern History, 1978-1985)
Economic and Social Research Council (1985-1990)
Oxford University (Professor of Modern History, 1986)
Oxford University (Corpus Christi, president, 1986-2000) (mostrar todos 10)
Reviewing Committee on Exports of Works of Art (1990-1993)
National Gallery (trustee, 1991-1998)
Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts (1992-)
British Library Advisory Committee for Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences (chair,1997-) - Prémios e menções honrosas
- Fellow, Royal Historical Society (1970)
Fellow, British Academy (1979)
Foreign Honorary Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1983)
Knight Bachelor (1988)
Ordine al merito della Repubblica Italiana (1991)
Academia Europaea (1993) (mostrar todos 8)
Founding Fellow, Learned Society of Wales (2010)
Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour (2020)
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 13
- Also by
- 4
- Membros
- 2,005
- Popularidade
- #12,841
- Avaliação
- 4.1
- Críticas
- 20
- ISBN
- 82
- Línguas
- 7
- Marcado como favorito
- 2
The book is divided into sections dealing with various topics, with the role of wise/cunning people aka white witches and natural healers etc, astrology and witchcraft forming the largest sections. Smaller ones cover areas such as the belief in old prophecies or fairy folk. A section towards the end discusses how the belief in the various magical systems faded out and were eventually replaced by rationalism and a faith in human progress rather than the previous harking back to the past and to precedent. This charts the development of, among other things, progress in medicine, the development of insurance, better means of fire fighting, and the development of statistical methods which helped to reduce uncertainty about the future which had previously been the province of the various magical systems.
The main weakness of the book is that the author decided against compiling a bibliography. There is an index, but all references to publications are in the form of footnotes, sometimes copious indeed and taking up half a page in places. This makes it pretty impossible to do follow up reading. The other oddity is that the conclusion which brings together the various threads including a discussion of why the belief in magic petered out well ahead of the technological advances that filled the voids left by its disappearance is pretty inconclusive. I suppose the author is honest enough to admit that he doesn't know, but it does make the conclusion fall a bit flat. On the whole would rate this at 4 stars.… (mais)