Keith Thomas's earlier studies in the ethnography of early modern England, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Man and the Natural World, and The Ends of Life, w

What did it mean to be ‘civilized’ in Early Modern England? Keith Thomas's seminal studies Religion and the Decline of Magic, Man and the Natural World, and

"The renowned historian Keith Thomas has written a peerless study of the place of civility in the shaping of English society between the early sixteenth and the

How should we live? That question was no less urgent for English men and women who lived between the early sixteenth and late eighteenth centuries than for this

This significant reassessment of Jacobean political culture reveals how colonizing America transformed English civility in early seventeenth-century England. Th