Valentine Greatrakes [ Science / Art and Literature ]
… of the seventeenth century , and in doing so have been led to underestimate the links between scientific and magical thinking lasting until at least the early decades of the eighteenth century. Valentine Greatrakes was a miracle healer, … and chronic conditions. Contemporary observer Lyonell Beacher testifies that he saw: ‘ [ Greatrakes ] touch many of the Kings Evil [ … ] and many also whom he had cured of that Distemper, came to acknowledge it, which is the utmost reward he … 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 upheavals of …
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