The Return of old Mother Leakey: Ghosts and Stories in Early Modern Britain and Ireland

老母亲利基的归来：近代早期英国和爱尔兰的鬼魂与故事

• 批准号: 111844/1
• 负责人: Peter Marshall
• 金额: $ 1.34万
• 依托单位: University of Warwick
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2006 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=111844%2F1
• 关键词: Return; old; Mother; Leakey; Ghosts

The project begins by investigating a sequence of events in mid-seventeenth-century England and Ireland, specifically the reported appearance of the ghost of Susan Leakey in Somerset in 1635-6 and the execution for sodomy of John Atherton, Bishop of Waterford, in Dublin in 1640. Atherton was Leakey's son-in-law, committed incest with his wife sister and perhaps colluded in their child's murder. It goes on to demonstrate how competing accounts and interpretations of these events circulated widely in oral culture and in print over the succeeding three centuries. In the process it addresses questions about the nature of historic memory, and supplies a case study in the modern construction of both 'history' and 'folklore'. The project is to be published as a book by Oxford University Press in the spring of 2007, entitles Mother Leakey and the Bishop: A Ghost Story. My hope is that the book will encourage a wider conception of what is possible through 'micro-historical' investigation.

该项目首先调查了世纪中期英格兰和爱尔兰发生的一系列事件，特别是1635- 1636年在萨默塞特出现的苏珊·利基鬼魂的报道，以及1640年在都柏林处决沃特福德主教约翰·阿瑟顿的鸡奸行为。阿瑟顿是利基的女婿，与他的妻子妹妹乱伦，也许还合谋谋杀了他们的孩子。它继续展示了这些事件的相互竞争的帐户和解释如何在随后的三个世纪中在口头文化和印刷品中广泛传播。在这个过程中，它解决了历史记忆的性质问题，并提供了一个案例研究在现代建设的“历史”和“民俗”。该项目将于2007年春季由牛津大学出版社出版一本书，书名为《李基母亲和主教：一个鬼故事》。我希望这本书将鼓励更广泛的概念，什么是可能通过“微观历史”的调查。