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Mother Leakey and the Bishop: A Ghost Story (Paperback)

by Peter Marshall (Author)
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  • Paperback: 352 pages
  • Publisher: OUP Oxford (9 Oct 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0199532079
  • ISBN-13: 978-0199532070
  • Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.2 x 2.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 70,480 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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John Coulter, Tribune, April 4, 2007
A shining example of how narrative history can be used to
illustrate a complicated subject... A remarkable piece of detective work.
--This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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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. )

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5.0 out of 5 stars Magical mystery tour, 11 Feb 2008
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This review is from: Mother Leakey and the Bishop: A Ghost Story (Hardcover)
This is huge fun ... or at least, it starts as fun and ends up as a bit more than that. The sensationalist raw material - the ghost, the bishop convicted of sodomy (though probably not of bestiality, sadly), and the weird connections between them - are up front. But having given us this racy drama, Marshall then won't let us get familiar with it: he keeps showing us the same events through different eyes, how history and prejudice and everyone's agenda has changed it. You start by enjoying a rollocking tale, and you finish wondering how we actually know anything about anything. Oh, and mourning for the loss of the teashop.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A great read, 5 Dec 2008
This is a cracking history book based upon the obscure tale of a seventeenth century haunting in Minehead and the related execution of a bishop for sodomy in Dublin. The book adopts an amusing and sardonic tone, but is in fact a serious investigation into the relationship between supernatural events and politics, ideas, and the social order in early modern England. Peter Marshall deserves credit for producing a really imaginative book. To my mind it is almost up there with Eamon Duffy's great book The Voices of Morebath or Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie's book Montalliou. Micro-history at its best!
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1.0 out of 5 stars From one who actually bought the book., 23 Dec 2007
This review is from: Mother Leakey and the Bishop: A Ghost Story (Hardcover)

This book is very tedious. He wanders all over the place. I can't believe he was given a grant to write it. Some of his phraseology is toe curling.

Harsh words I know. Maybe one has to be a lover of the seventeenth century to like this book.

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