The Royal Touch: Sacred Monarchy and Scrofula in England and France
work by Bloch
Also known as: “Les Rois Thaumaturges: Étude sur le caractère surnaturel attribué à la puissance royale, particulièrement en France et en Angleterre”
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discussed in biography
- In Marc Bloch
…France et en Angleterre (1924; The Royal Touch: Sacred Monarchy and Scrofula in England and France) is a densely documented study of the production and dissemination of a long-lived, powerful political myth of monarchical healing power. The second, Les Caractères originaux de l’histoire rurale française (1931; French Rural History: An…
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