Relatedly - anyone interested in this topic should check out Keith Thomas's Religion and the Decline of Magic (1971), hands down one of my favorite history book

Relatedly - anyone interested in this topic should check out Keith Thomas's Religion and the Decline of Magic (1971), hands down one of my favorite history books ever. Here's a recent essay about it by the novelist Hilary Mantel: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2012/06/07/magic-keith-thomas/ http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2012/06/07/magic-keith-thoma...