10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «THE KING'S EVIL»
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the king's evil in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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The early novels of the Christopher Redmayne series of Restoration era mysteries come to Allison & Busby
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Hand of
the King's
Evil
When the daughter of the King's Shadow is kidnapped on her wedding night, her husband Hasan, war-leader of the desert Sharai, will stop at nothing to save her, but his mission is hindered by a strange preacher whose zombie-like followers ...
Meticulously crafted and irresistibly creepy, The King's Evil is a provocative and unsettling modern morality tale that probes man's intrinsic nature and the unilluminated recesses of his psyche.
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Sherlock Holmes and
the king's
evil: and other new ...
Five original stories by the critically acknowledged modern master of the Sherlockian pastiche, Donald Thomas.
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The Norman Conquest and Beyond
3 THE KING'S EVIL MARC BLOCH, who in 1924 wrote the first modern historical
account of the custom in France and England of the monarch curing sufferers
from scrofulas by his touch,1 established to his own satisfaction that touching for
the ...
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Observations on
the causes, symptoms and nature of scrofula ...
It is technically called Struma, or Scrofula, which are synonymous terms ; but in
common language it is called the King's Evil. The latter appellation is derived
from the circumstance of Edward the Confessor, touching persons afflicted with it
...
John Kent (of Stanton, Suffolk.),
1833
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The Cyclopaedia of Practical Medicine: Comprising Treatises ...
... t In some parts of Scotland the disease is called by the common people " the
crueU;'' an evident corruption of the French word. chin ; and the English the king's
evil. This last SCROFULA. 701 Dr Cumin.
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Nurturing Yesterday's Child: A Portrayal of
the Drake ...
TOUCHING FOR THE KING'S EVIL This is to give notice, That His Majesty [
Charles II] hath declared his positive resolution not to heal any more after this
present April until Michaelmass next. And this is published to the End that all
Persons ...
Mary Spaulding, Penny Welch,
1994
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Miracles in Enlightenment England
When George Fox healed a girl of the King's Evil by laying hands on her and
praying, as he did for example in Coleshill in Warwickshire, it was not a politically
neutral act for the leader of a group that did not see any need to doff their hats to
...
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The Press in English Society from
the Seventeenth to ...
Besides frequent references to Charles as "pious" or "sacred," the paper carried
many items on the miraculous healing power attributed to the monarchy, the
power to cure the King's Evil by touch.42 Throughout the period the paper carried
...
Michael Harris, Alan J. Lee,
1986
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Why I'm Passionate About The Royals...And Hope You Will Be, Too
... Jake Maskall as the king's evil brother Cyrus, Vincent Regan as the King, and of course the spot-on casting of Alexandra Park as Elizabeth Hurley's daughter ... «E! Online, Mar 15»