In this remarkable piece of historical detective work, Peter Marshall sets out to discover the intriguing links between sightings of the ghost of an old woman in the small English coastal town of Minehead in the 1630s and the hanging of a disgraced Protestant bishop in Dublin several years later.
In this remarkable piece of historical detective work, Peter Marshall sets out to discover the intriguing links between sightings of the ghost of an old woman in the small English coastal town of Minehead in the 1630s and the hanging of a disgraced Protestant bishop in Dublin several years later.
Peter Marshall is Professor of History at the University of Warwick and co-editor of The English Historical Review. He has published widely on many aspects of the religious culture of early modern Europe, particularly in the British Isles, and his books include Mother Leakey and the Bishop: A Ghost Story (2007), The Reformation: A Very Short Introduction (2009) and Heretics and Believers: A History of the English Reformation (2017).
Inhaltsangabe
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
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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