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Sir Keith Vivian Thomas CH FBA FRHistS FLSW (born 2 January 1933) is a Welsh historian of the early modern world based at Oxford University. He is best known as the author of Religion and the Decline of Magic and Man and the Natural World. From 1986 to 2000, he was president of Corpus Christi College, Oxford .
Sir Keith Thomas was born in 1933 and educated at Barry County Grammar School and Balliol College, Oxford, where he read Modern History. He has spent all his academic career in Oxford, as a senior scholar of St. Antony's (1955), a Prize Fellow of All Souls (1955-57), Fellow and Tutor of St John's (1957-85), Reader (1978-85), ad hominem ...
This chapter presents biographical information on Keith Thomas. Thomas was born in 1933, the elder son of a Welsh tenant farmer with 250 acres of land. Despite his rural background, Thomas was knighted, became head of the Corpus Christi College of Oxford University, president of the British Academy, and one of twentieth-century Britain's most ...
Apr 12, 2021 · This year marks the 50th anniversary of Keith Thomas’s Religion and the Decline of Magic (1971), a book that set the agenda for decades of scholarship on the history of popular belief.
History. CH, MA, FBA. Honorary Fellow since 2015. Background. Honorary Fellow, All Souls College (from 2015) Distinguished Fellow, All Souls College (from 2001 to 2015) Pro-Vice-Chancellor, University of Oxford (from 1988 to 2000) President of Corpus Christi College, Oxford (from 1986 to 2000)
Jul 6, 2010 · Summary. Few historical enterprises have been as intensively historiographical and reflexive in character as the study of witchcraft in early modern Europe.
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Thomas, Sir Keith Vivian (1933–) A pioneer in the field of social history and an advocate of the need for historians to keep abreast of developments in the social sciences, Thomas was particularly associated with the use of the techniques of social anthropology.
