Valentine Greatrakes [ Science / Art and Literature ]
… of the Kings Evil [ … ] and many also whom he had cured of that Distemper, came to acknowledge it, which is the utmost reward he accepts from any: The same day I saw him touch 60’. 1 The richly symbolic gestures of the laying on of hands, … of the belief in divine kingship already shaken by a cycle of upheavals of the established order marked by the civil wars and the Restoration of Charles II (1660). 1 . Lyonell Beacher, Wonders if not miracles, or, A relation of the … doctrine that miracles had ceased and reducing the royal mystique 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 …
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