Valentine Greatrakes [ Science / Art and Literature ]
… healer, pranotherapist, esoteric and magical provocateur of emotions who gained widespread popularity in Restoration England. His influence on irrational crowds provides evidence of both a conscious and an unconscious desire to recover … p. 7. Although a minor event amid the turmoil of Restoration England, Greatrakes’s popularity as a miracle worker, disproving the Church of England’s doctrine that miracles had ceased and reducing the royal mystique of the King’s touch, influenced public …
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