The Roots of Obamacare
Monday, April 29th, 2013By Christopher Kelly
Faith in Kings?
In Peter Ackroyd’s The History of England Volume I: Foundation, 2011 (www.amzn.com/125000361X) we read…
“The belief that the king’s touch could cure the skin disease of scrofula emerged at some point in the twelfth century, although Edward the Confessor was accredited with miraculous powers at an earlier date. It is possible that Henry II was the first king to make a ritual out of healing those afflicted by the disease, and one o...
