مؤلف: Sir Keith Thomas

‘Man and the Natural World, an encyclopaedic study of man’s relationship to animals and plants, is completely engrossing … It explains everything – why we eat what we do, why we plant this and not …

Witchcraft, astrology, divination and every kind of popular magic flourished in England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, from the belief that a blessed amulet could prevent the assault …