![]() ![]() Both panels were multigenerational yet had the same deep appreciation of Sir Keith Thomas’s work. Registrants will be sent the written papers for this roundtable a week in advance of the conference. Religion and the Decline of Magic connects generations, this much is clear. ![]() Panellists: Robin Briggs, Chris Gosden, Michelle Pfeffer, Will Pooley, Laura Sangha, David Zeitlyn 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. Organised by Michelle Pfeffer (Magdalen College, University of Oxford), Jan Machielsen (Cardiff University), and Robin Briggs (All Souls College, University of Oxford) Studies in Popular Beliefs in Sixteenth and Seventeenth-Century England. ![]() Registrations close 2 September 2021, 15:00 ( GMT). Religion And The Decline Of Magic from Dymocks online bookstore. Due a limit on numbers, only a small audience will be invited to attend the conference in-person. The event will be live streamed from All Souls College, Oxford. 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. 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. ![]()
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