![]() ![]() You might think from the title of Religion and the Decline of Magic that there is going to be some causal relationship between the two noun phrases: that this is a story of how religion grew as magic diminished.īut that is not at all the story being told in this fantastically wide-ranging, compendious study of the beliefs of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. He has published essays on many different aspects of the social and cultural history of early modern England. ![]() ![]() He has held visiting appointments at Princeton, Stanford, Columbia and Louisiana State Universities. Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and an Hon. He is a member of the Academia Europaea, a Founding Member of the Learned Society of Wales, a Foreign Hon. Elected FBA in 1979, he was President of the British Academy (1993-97). He is now an Honorary Fellow of All Souls, Balliol, Corpus Christi and St John's. He returned to All Souls as a Distinguished Fellow (2001-15). Antony's (1955), a Prize Fellow of All Souls (1955-57), Fellow and Tutor of St John's (1957-85), Reader (1978-85), ad hominem Professor (1986) and President of Corpus Christi (1986-2000). He has spent all his academic career in Oxford, as a senior scholar of St. Sir Keith Thomas was born in 1933 and educated at Barry County Grammar School and Balliol College, Oxford, where he read Modern History. ![]()
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