{"product_id":"mother-leakey-and-the-bishop-a-ghost-story-9780199532070","title":"Mother Leakey and the Bishop: A Ghost Story","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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this remarkable piece of historical detective work, Peter Marshall sets out to uncover the intriguing links between these two seemingly unconnected events. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePeter Marshall\u003c\/strong\u003e 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, \u003cem\u003eReformation England 1480-1642\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe Catholic Priesthood and the English Reformation\u003c\/em\u003e, also published by Oxford University Press.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"OUP Oxford","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50844105474322,"sku":"9780199532070","price":28.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_1ee36ce6-109b-4542-809f-38a08fb01999.jpg?v=1737311211","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/mother-leakey-and-the-bishop-a-ghost-story-9780199532070","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}