ISBN10: 0297002201, ISBN13: 9780297002208, [publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson] Hardcover This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1300grams, ISBN:0297002201
[Lincoln, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1971]

Weidenfeld & Nicolson, Date: 1971. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1300grams, ISBN:0297002201 1971. Weidenfeld & Nicolson ISBN 0297002201 9780297002208 [GB]

Weidenfeld & Nicolson, Date: 1971. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Book contains pen & pencil markings. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1400grams, ISBN:0297002201 1971. Weidenfeld & Nicolson ISBN 0297002201 9780297002208 [GB]

ISBN10: 0297002201, ISBN13: 9780297002208, [publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson] Hardcover This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1300grams, ISBN:0297002201
[Lincoln, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1971]

Brown cloth boards with light fading at top. Spine ends bumped, otherwise sound. No DJ. Some pencil marking throughout text.Astrology, witchcraft, magical healing, divination, ancient prophecies, ghosts, and fairies were taken very seriously by people at all social and economic levels in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. Helplessness in the face of disease and human disaster helped to perpetuate this belief in magic and the supernatural. As Keith Thomas shows, England during these years resembled in many ways today's "underdeveloped areas." Date: 1971. Weidenfeld & Nicolson ISBN 0297002201 9780297002208 [AU]

Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1971 Hardcover This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 1300grams, ISBN: 0297002201.

ISBN10: 0297002201, ISBN13: 9780297002208, [publisher: Orion Publishing Group, Limited] Hardcover Astrology, witchcraft, magical healing, divination, ancient prophecies, ghosts, and fairies were taken very seriously by people at all social and economic levels in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. Helplessness in the face of disease and human disaster helped to perpetuate this belief in magic and the supernatural. As Keith Thomas shows, England during these years resembled in many ways today's "underdeveloped areas." The English population was exceedingly liable to pain, sickness, and premature death; many were illiterate; epidemics such as the bubonic plague plowed through English towns, at times cutting the number of London's inhabitants by a sixth; fire was a constant threat; the food supply was precarious; and for most diseases there was no effective medical remedy. In this fascinating and detailed book, Keith Thomas shows how magic, like the medieval Church, offered an explanation for misfortune and a means of redress in times of adversity. The supernatural thus had its own practical utility in daily life. Some forms of magic were challenged by the Protestant Reformation, but only with the increased search for scientific explanation of the universe did the English people begin to abandon their recourse to the supernatural. Science and technology have made us less vulnerable to some of the hazards which confronted the people of the past ...

London Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1973 Third Printing Hardcover Very Good+ in Very Good-dust jacket 0297002201. Large 8vo 9"-10" tall; 716 pages; 1973 Weidenfeld & Nicolson. Stout HC/DJ. 3rd printing (it appears). Snugly bound and clean in original color pictorial dust jacket with UK £8.00 issue price intact to unclipped front flap. Prior owner name and date penned neatly yop front corner of the title page. Contents bright and neat with no marks. Dust jacket lightly rubbed edges with a pair of one inch closed tears top edge rear panel, small nick same and a short closed tear top edge front. Superficial toning to whites of the jacket. Solid neat copy of the original edition and somewhat uncommon, thus. VG+/VG-...Oversize book may require additional charges for expedited or international shipping.

ISBN10: 0297002201, ISBN13: 9780297002208, [publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London] Hardcover Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 716 pages; 1973 Weidenfeld & Nicolson. Stout HC/DJ. 3rd printing (it appears). Snugly bound and clean in original color pictorial dust jacket with UK £8.00 issue price intact to unclipped front flap. Prior owner name and date penned neatly yop front corner of the title page. Contents bright and neat with no marks. Dust jacket lightly rubbed edges with a pair of one inch closed tears top edge rear panel, small nick same and a short closed tear top edge front. Superficial toning to whites of the jacket. Solid neat copy of the original edition and somewhat uncommon, thus. VG+/VG- . Oversize book may require additional charges for expedited or international shipping.
[Lancaster, PA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1973]
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[Denver, CO, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1971]