Valentine Greatrakes [ Science / Art and Literature ]
… was a miracle healer, pranotherapist, esoteric and magical provocateur of emotions who gained widespread popularity in Restoration England. His influence on irrational crowds provides evidence of both a conscious and an unconscious desire … 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 wonderful … p. 7. Although a minor event amid the turmoil of Restoration England, Greatrakes’s popularity as a miracle worker, disproving the Church of England’s doctrine that …
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