Mother Leakey and the Bishop
A Ghost Story
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Product details:
- Publisher Oxford University Press
- Date of Publication 22 February 2007
- ISBN 9780199273713
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages352 pages
- Size 203x139x24 mm
- Weight 469 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 16 halftones 0
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Short description:
Halloween 1636: sightings of the ghost of an old woman begin to be reported in the small English coastal town of Minehead, and a royal commission is sent to investigate. December 1640: a disgraced Protestant bishop is hanged in the Irish capital, Dublin, after being convicted of an 'unspeakable' crime. In this remarkable piece of historical detective work, Peter Marshall sets out to uncover the intriguing links between these two seemingly unconnected events.
MoreLong description:
Halloween 1636: sightings of the ghost of an old woman begin to be reported in the small English coastal town of Minehead, and a royal commission is sent to investigate. December 1640: a disgraced Protestant bishop is hanged in the Irish capital, Dublin, after being convicted of an 'unspeakable' crime.
In this remarkable piece of historical detective work, Peter Marshall sets out to uncover the intriguing links between these two seemingly unconnected events.
The result is a compelling tale of dark family secrets, of efforts to suppress them, and of the ways in which they finally come to light. It is also the story of a shocking seventeenth-century Church scandal which cast its shadow over religion and politics in Britain and Ireland for the best part of three centuries, drawing in a host of well known and not-so-well-known characters along the way, including Jonathan Swift, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Walter Scott.
A fascinating story in its own right, Mother Leakey and the Bishop is also a sparkling demonstration of how the telling of stories is central to the way we remember the past, and can become part of the fabric of history itself.
A valuable contribution to the micro-histories of the early modern world. There is much for general readers to enjoy and scholars to admire...the details is so skilfully handled as to be unerringly involving and illuminating.
Table of Contents:
Prologue: A Haunting in Minehead
The World of the Leakeys
The Leakeys' Other World
Interlude: A Hanging in Dublin
The Devil Let Loose Off his Chain
The Shameful End of Bishop Atherton
The Penitent Death of a Woeful Sinner
Interlude: In a London Coffee House
Athenianism
The Narratives of the Reverend John Quick
Atherton and Leakey; History and Folklore
Epilogue: Mother Leakey's Parlour
Cast of Characters
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