Valentine Greatrakes [ Science / Art and Literature ]
… of the King’s touch, influenced public opinion towards the most famous miracle healer of the age, King Charles II himself . Greatrakes’s encroaching on the prerogative of the monarch and his past as a veteran of the Parlamentarian army , … ‘one of [ his ] admirers’ (Elmer 7). Greatrakes was thus a perceptive social net-worker as well as an ante-litteram self-promoting publicist: he carried out journalistic activities dealing with the collection, processing and … a figure who fed the tension to freedom of the crowd, in search of a guide. As the crowd was unable to govern itself, it identified with a character who, whatever his merits or demerits, in any case promised a supernatural capacity …
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