Volume 17, Number 9 · December 2, 1971
The Disenchantment of the World
By Lawrence Stone
Religion and the Decline of Magic
by Keith Thomas
Scribner's, 716 pp., $17.50
Witchcraft in Tudor and Stuart England
by Alan MacFarlane
Harper & Row, 334 pp., $2.95 (paper)
Witchcraft at Salem
by Chadwick Hansen
Signet, 252 pp., $1.25 (paper)
Magistrats et Sorciers en France au 17e Siècle
by Robert Mandrou
Plon, 583 pp., 45 frs.
The European Witch-craze of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
by H.R. Trevor-Roper
Harper & Row, 246 pp., $1.95 (paper)
Antichrist in Seventeenth Century England
by Christopher Hill
Oxford University Press, 201 pp., $5.50
In 1938, the great French historian Lucien Febvre issued a call for a reorientation of historical studies, with much greater attention paid to what he called 'L'histoire des mentalités collectives,' defined as an inventory of the mental baggage of past generations and a sympathetic effort to understand their beliefs and modes of reasoning. Over thirty years have now gone by, but it is only during the last decade that there have been signs that Febvre's advice is beginning to produce results.
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