Valentine Greatrakes [ Science / Art and Literature ]
… ‘ Apostle’ by the locals, he becomes for us one of the numinous spectres of the medieval romances, reminding us of the traditional romance motifs of the revival of life and fertility in a previously barren land, namely the wounded social … after the Restoration of Charles II . The outcome of these antagonistic dynamics is channelled into the search for traditional spiritual values to cling to, in the lack of stability of social, economic, political and cultural values. …
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