Keith Thomas is a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. He was formerly President of Corpus Christi College and, before that, Professor of Modern History and Fellow of St John's College. RELIGION AND DECLINE OF MAGIC, his first book, won one of the two Wolfson Literary Awards for History in 1972. He was knighted in 1988 for services to the study of history.
Monumental ... with a living treasure on each page, and probably
the book that, in my whole life, I've pressed on other people most
energetically. (Selected people, of course. They have to care for
history, and they need a sense of wonder and a sense of fun.)
*New York Times*
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