Search Results: Authors starting with T from Bob's Books

Bound in blue cloth. Good condition. DJ in good condition.
Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Bound in red cloth with gilt title on black banner on backstrap. Good condition. DJ has light shelf wear. Some underlinings in text.

Hardback, First Ed. DJ intact.
One of the Great explorers of the eighteenth and nineteenth century

Green coth covered boards with gilt title on spine. Good condition. Pencil notes on front endpapers. DJ in good condition.
Includes Notes and Index.

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."