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The Decline of Magic

Britain in the Enlightenment

by Michael Hunter

An intellectual history of how educated Britons came to reject magic, witchcraft and spirit belief between the later seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Hunter emphasises the role of free-thinking and polemic and revisits the questions raised by Keith Thomas.

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