![]() ![]() 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. ![]() ![]() 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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