Mother Naked
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Author: Glen James Brown
The City of Durham, 1434. Out of a storm, an old minstrel arrives at the cathedral to entertain the city’s most powerful men. Mother Naked is his name, and he tells the story of the Legend of the Fell Wraith: the gruesome ‘walking ghost’ some say slaughtered the nearby village of Segerston 40 years earlier. But is this ghost only a myth, born from the dim minds of toiling peasants? Or does the Wraith – and do the murders – have roots in real events suffered by those fated to a lifetime of labour? As Mother Naked weaves the strands of the mystery – of class, religion, art, and ale – it starts to seem as though the chilling truth might be closer to his privileged audience than they could ever imagine.Taking its inspiration from a single payment entered into Durham’s Cathedral rolls, ‘Modyr Nakett’ was the lowest-paid performer in over 200 years of records. Set against the traumatic shadow of the Black Death and the Peasant’s Revolt, 'Mother Naked' speaks back from the margins in a fury of imaginative recuperation.Shortlisted for the Republic of Consciousness Prize and longlisted for the Walter Scott Prize.
ISBN 9781913512484. Peninsula Press. pb. 256 pages. 20 x 13 cm.
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The City of Durham, 1434. Out of a storm, an old minstrel arrives at the cathedral to entertain the city’s most powerful men. Mother Naked is his name, and he tells the story of the Legend of the Fell Wraith: the gruesome ‘walking ghost’ some say slaughtered the nearby village of Segerston 40 years earlier. But is this ghost only a myth, born from the dim minds of toiling peasants? Or does the Wraith – and do the murders – have roots in real events suffered by those fated to a lifetime of labour? As Mother Naked weaves the strands of the mystery – of class, religion, art, and ale – it starts to seem as though the chilling truth might be closer to his privileged audience than they could ever imagine.Taking its inspiration from a single payment entered into Durham’s Cathedral rolls, ‘Modyr Nakett’ was the lowest-paid performer in over 200 years of records. Set against the traumatic shadow of the Black Death and the Peasant’s Revolt, 'Mother Naked' speaks back from the margins in a fury of imaginative recuperation.Shortlisted for the Republic of Consciousness Prize and longlisted for the Walter Scott Prize.
ISBN 9781913512484. Peninsula Press. pb. 256 pages. 20 x 13 cm.
available