Mother Leakey and the Bishop
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-953207-0 (ISBN)
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.
Peter Marshall is Professor of History at the University of Warwick, with a particular interest in the study of religious belief and practice in sixteenth and seventeenth-century England and the cultural impact of the English Reformation. He has published widely in the field, including a survey of the period, Reformation England 1480-1642, and The Catholic Priesthood and the English Reformation, also published by Oxford University Press.
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
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 9.10.2008 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 14 black and white halftones; 2 maps |
| Verlagsort | Oxford |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 129 x 195 mm |
| Gewicht | 368 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-19-953207-9 / 0199532079 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-953207-0 / 9780199532070 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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