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Valentine Greatrakes [ Science / Art and Literature ]

… crowds provides evidence of both a conscious and an unconscious desire to recover the atmosphere of magical and charismatic sociability. People > Science People > Art and Literature Keywords Miracle Healer Supernaturalism Pseudo-science Public Figure Charisma Irrational Crowd Bill of Rights Popular Emancipation In 1666 Valentine Greatrakes (Affane, County of Waterford, … of the medical cures reported’ (Fleming 411). These influential men were deeply impressed by Greatrakes’s personal charisma and apparent gift and spread the news in their numerous letters and correspondences of the queer wonder …

Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire [ Aristocracy / Fashion ]

… Whig dynasty of Cavendish once more having a hostess to revive the splendour of Devonshire House. Cavendish’s charm and charisma made her compelling as noted by Horace Walpole, who recorded that ‘her youth, figure, flowing good nature, sense …

Celebrity [ Publicity ]

… George Washington or the Haitian Toussaint Louverture all found new power through projecting their personalities as charismatic ‘men on horseback’ who could break through old traditions and forge new nations. 17  Religion remained an important source of charismatic power in the age of Enlightenment: aside from famous churchmen such as Sacheverell and Hoadly, there were … 1770-1820’, Royal Studies Journal (vol. 9, n° 2, 2022), p. 99-115. 17 . David A. Bell, Men on Horseback: The Power of Charisma in the Age of Revolution (New York: Farar, Straus & Giroux, 2020). 18 . Henry Abelove, The Evangelist of Desire: …