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Author_Marc Bloch
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Cramp Rings
Edward II
Edward III
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hand
healing
Healing Rites
Henry III
Holy Oil
Holy Unction
Innocent III
IOI
James III
Jean Baptiste Thiers
Jean Martin Charcot
medieval healing rituals
miracles
miraculous
miraculous cures history
Miraculous Healing
monarchy and medicine
Nicolas De Clamanges
peyrat
Place Maubert
political theology
power
Raoul De Presles
religious authority Europe
rings
rites
royal healing power analysis
Royal Healings
Royal Miracle
Royal Touch
Royal Unction
sacred kingship
Seventh Sons
St Thomas Aquinas
Thomas Aquinas
unction
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781138855212
- Weight: 820g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 04 Feb 2015
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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First published in English in 1973, The Royal Touch explores the supernatural character that was long attributed to royal power. Throughout history, both France and England claimed to hold kings with healing powers who, by their touch, could cure people from all strands of society from illness and disease. Indeed, the idea of royalty as something miraculous and sacred was common to the whole of Western Europe. Using the work of both professional scholars and of doctors, this work stands as a contribution to the political history of Europe.
