Sir Keith Thomas | |
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President of Corpus Christi College, Oxford | |
In office 1986–2000 | |
Preceded by | Sir Kenneth Dover |
Succeeded by | Sir Tim Lankester |
Personal details | |
Born | Keith Vivian Thomas 2 January 1933 Wick, Glamorgan, Wales |
Nationality | British |
Spouse | Valerie Thomas |
Children | 2 |
Academic work | |
Discipline | History |
Sub-discipline | Social and cultural history of early modern England |
Institutions | University of Oxford All Souls College, Oxford St John's College, Oxford Corpus Christi College, Oxford |
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.