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Mother Leakey and the Bishop
A Ghost Story
Peter Marshall
352 pages
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14 black and white halftones; 2 maps
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198x129mm
978-0-19-953207-0
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Paperback
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09 October 2008
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- A compelling tale of sex, scandal, and the supernatural in 17th century Britain and Ireland
- A remarkable piece of historical detective work uncovering the intriguing links between two apparently quite unrelated events
- Illuminates a whole range of related topics, from shifting sexual identities to the politics of religion, from Anglo-Irish relations to the development of modern folklore
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.Readership: All those interested in early modern English history, especially those with an interest in social or religious history, or the history of magic.
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Peter Marshall, Professor of History, University of Warwick
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"What a surprisingly wonderful read! With this work, Peter Marshall has written one of the best narratives on seventeenth-century English history, bringing together the small world of a Somerset fishing village with the larger worlds of Sir Thomas Wentworth, Archbishop Laud, and even Charles I." - Journal of British Studies "An engaging and ambitious work...a remarkable achievement...thought-provoking and enjoyable." - Tom Webster, Histoire Sociale-Social History, 42 "[This] will appeal to the divergent fields of academic history and broader reading without either boring the academic or patronizing the general reader." - Tom Webster, Histoire Sociale-Social History, 42 "This
is as fine an example of microhistory as is likely to be written." - Craig Herline, Church History and Religious Culture "Hugely enjoyable feat of historical reconstruction...intiricate story told with hilarious elegance." - London Review of Books "It is an ugly story but Marshall's way of telling it is irresistible and richly informative." - Sunday Times. John Carey. "...an engaging and ambitious work... that will appeal to the divergent fields of academic history and broader reading without either boring the academic or patronizing the general reader... a remarkable achievement... thought-provoking and enjoyable." - Histoire Sociale - Social History, 42. Tom Webster.
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Prologue: A Haunting in Minehead
1: The World of the Leakeys
2: The Leakeys' Other World
Interlude: A Hanging in Dublin
3: The Devil Let Loose Off his Chain
4: The Shameful End of Bishop Atherton
5: The Penitent Death of a Woeful Sinner
Interlude: In a London Coffee House
6: Athenianism
7: The Narratives of the Reverend John Quick
8: Atherton and Leakey; History and Folklore
Epilogue: Mother Leakey's Parlour
Cast of Characters
Further Reading
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