![]() ![]() ![]() Among both educated and ordinary people the absolute existence of a spiritual world was taken for granted. In early modern Britain, belief in prophecies, omens, ghosts, apparitions and fairies was commonplace. 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. The Decline of Magic: Britain in the Enlightenment. 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. ![]() Due to 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. ![]()
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