Valentine Greatrakes [ Science / Art and Literature ]
… emotional moods of awe, pathos, melancholy, terror and horror, proved to be attractive to large audiences. Greatrakes’s healing the king’s evil by touch wore away what remained of the belief in divine kingship already shaken by a cycle of … on the prerogative of the monarch and his past as a veteran of the Parlamentarian army , as well as the origin of his healing ‘impulse’ in 1662, two years after the Restoration , are trivial proof to indicate his healing activities were planned as a political or religious protest. However, some ‘Low-church’ Anglicans were more than …
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