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Keith Vivian Thomas

キーース・ヴィヴィアン・トーマス

Kīsu Vivian Tōmasu

Aliases: Sir Keith Thomas

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1933-01-02 (Wick, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales)
Nationality
British, Welsh
Languages
English
Religion
Secular Humanism
Residence History
Oxford

Career

Occupations
Historian, University Professor, College President
Active Years
1955-
Affiliations
All Souls College, Oxford, St John's College, Oxford, Corpus Christi College, Oxford
Memberships
Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales (FLSW)

Education

Balliol College, Oxford
Modern History
Degree: BA (later MA)
Period: 1950年代初頭-1955
Year of Graduation: 1955
Country: United Kingdom
Brackenbury Scholarship, First Class Honours

Awards

Companion of Honour (CH)
2020
Organization: British Monarchy
Result: 受賞
Knight Bachelor
1988
Organization: British Monarchy
Result: 受賞
Fellow of the British Academy (FBA)
1979
Organization: British Academy
Result: 選出
Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (FRHistS)
1970
Organization: Royal Historical Society
Result: 選出

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Religion and the Decline of Magic

1971 Cultural History

Studies in popular beliefs in 16th- and 17th-century England

MagicReligionPopular Beliefs

Man and the Natural World

1983 Environmental History

Changing attitudes in England 1500-1800

Natural WorldEnvironmental Attitudes

The Ends of Life

2009 Social History

Roads to fulfilment in early modern England

Life EndsFulfilment

Bibliography

  • Religion and the Decline of Magic (1971)
  • Man and the Natural World (1983)
  • The Ends of Life (2009)
  • In Pursuit of Civility (2018)

Style & Themes

Literary Style
Detailed Archival AnalysisSocial and Cultural Insights
Recurring Motifs
Early Modern EnglandPopular BeliefsChanging Attitudes

Legacy

Leading historian of early modern English social and cultural history

Academic Societies

  • British Academy