- History, Royal touch, Therapeutic use, Coins
" ... Theme is the Western European conception of kingship. But with characteristic virtuosity, Bloch chooses an unusual issue to focus on--the belief that the touch of the sovereign's hand could cure scrofula and related diseases."--dust jacket.
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Cool, grave, earnest and contemplative.
- cooloverwhelming
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- contemplativerelentless
- classical in formformally daring
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- Author
- Marc Bloch, Dr. Antonio Fontoura
- First published
- 1924
- Pages
- 542
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Group, A. Colin, Routledge & K. Paul
- Editions
- 21
- Language
- Spanish, English, French
- ISBN
- 9781138855922
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Marc Léopold Benjamin Bloch (6 July 1886 – 16 June 1944) was a French historian.
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