Author: Nicholas Orme
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 019154289X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Cornwall is unique among English counties, though similar to other Celtic lands, in its religious history. Its churches, chapels, and place-names commemorated not only the major saints of Christendom, but also many minor 'Celtic' ones, unique to single churches. This book breaks new ground by considering them all, comprehensively and in detail. The introduction explains how the cults came into existence, and how they shed light on early Christianity in the county. It follows their history up to the Reformation, and shows how popular devotion to the saints lingered even in the eighteenth century. The main part of the book provides a history of every known religious cult in Cornwall from the sixth century AD to the Reformation, with relevant information about its later history down to the present day. Every known site is identified (church, chapel, altar, image, holy well, or other outdoor feature), and every written source is discussed (saint's Life, liturgical commemoration, and calendar festival). This is the first time that a complete inventory of cults has been produced for an area as large as an English county. The work also includes many saints venerated in Brittany, Wales and England, and makes copious references to all three countries. It provides a major resource in the fields of medieval Church history, Reformation studies, folklore, and Celtic studies, as well as the history of Cornwall.
The Saints of Cornwall
Author: Nicholas Orme
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 019154289X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Cornwall is unique among English counties, though similar to other Celtic lands, in its religious history. Its churches, chapels, and place-names commemorated not only the major saints of Christendom, but also many minor 'Celtic' ones, unique to single churches. This book breaks new ground by considering them all, comprehensively and in detail. The introduction explains how the cults came into existence, and how they shed light on early Christianity in the county. It follows their history up to the Reformation, and shows how popular devotion to the saints lingered even in the eighteenth century. The main part of the book provides a history of every known religious cult in Cornwall from the sixth century AD to the Reformation, with relevant information about its later history down to the present day. Every known site is identified (church, chapel, altar, image, holy well, or other outdoor feature), and every written source is discussed (saint's Life, liturgical commemoration, and calendar festival). This is the first time that a complete inventory of cults has been produced for an area as large as an English county. The work also includes many saints venerated in Brittany, Wales and England, and makes copious references to all three countries. It provides a major resource in the fields of medieval Church history, Reformation studies, folklore, and Celtic studies, as well as the history of Cornwall.
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 019154289X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Cornwall is unique among English counties, though similar to other Celtic lands, in its religious history. Its churches, chapels, and place-names commemorated not only the major saints of Christendom, but also many minor 'Celtic' ones, unique to single churches. This book breaks new ground by considering them all, comprehensively and in detail. The introduction explains how the cults came into existence, and how they shed light on early Christianity in the county. It follows their history up to the Reformation, and shows how popular devotion to the saints lingered even in the eighteenth century. The main part of the book provides a history of every known religious cult in Cornwall from the sixth century AD to the Reformation, with relevant information about its later history down to the present day. Every known site is identified (church, chapel, altar, image, holy well, or other outdoor feature), and every written source is discussed (saint's Life, liturgical commemoration, and calendar festival). This is the first time that a complete inventory of cults has been produced for an area as large as an English county. The work also includes many saints venerated in Brittany, Wales and England, and makes copious references to all three countries. It provides a major resource in the fields of medieval Church history, Reformation studies, folklore, and Celtic studies, as well as the history of Cornwall.
The Saints of Cornwall
Author: Gilbert Hunter Doble
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian saints
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian saints
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Nicholas Roscarrock's Lives of the Saints
Author: Nicholas Roscarrock
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Nicholas Roscarrock (c.1548-1634) was a Cornish Catholic who suffered torture and imprisonment in the Tower of London, and afterwards wrote a great dictionary of British and Irish saints, which has never been published. Using medieval Latin saints' Lives together with precious folklore not recorded elsewhere, he wrote concise accounts of Petroc and Piran, Neot and Samson, Sidwell and Urith, and many lesser-known figures, often with picturesque details. Here are many familiar and some unique stories: St Columb's well whose water would not boil; St Endelient, King Arthur and the cow; and St Menfre who threw her comb at the Devil.This edition provides, for the first time, a printed text of all Roscarrock's articles - about 100 - which relate to the saints of Cornwall and Devon. An introduction tells the story of Roscarrock's life, describes his book, and provides a basic historical account of the 'Cornishsaints'. Detailed notes explain what is known today about the saints individually, and an appendix lists all those who are included in the dictionary.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Nicholas Roscarrock (c.1548-1634) was a Cornish Catholic who suffered torture and imprisonment in the Tower of London, and afterwards wrote a great dictionary of British and Irish saints, which has never been published. Using medieval Latin saints' Lives together with precious folklore not recorded elsewhere, he wrote concise accounts of Petroc and Piran, Neot and Samson, Sidwell and Urith, and many lesser-known figures, often with picturesque details. Here are many familiar and some unique stories: St Columb's well whose water would not boil; St Endelient, King Arthur and the cow; and St Menfre who threw her comb at the Devil.This edition provides, for the first time, a printed text of all Roscarrock's articles - about 100 - which relate to the saints of Cornwall and Devon. An introduction tells the story of Roscarrock's life, describes his book, and provides a basic historical account of the 'Cornishsaints'. Detailed notes explain what is known today about the saints individually, and an appendix lists all those who are included in the dictionary.
The Cornish Saints
Author: Peter Berresford Ellis
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780850253726
Category : Christian saints
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780850253726
Category : Christian saints
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The Age of the Saints
Author: William Copeland Borlase
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian antiquities
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian antiquities
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Cornish Saints & Sinners
Author: J. Henry Harris
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Category : Cornwall (England : County)
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cornwall (England : County)
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
The Age of the Saints
Author: William Copeland Borlase
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian antiquities
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian antiquities
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
The Saints of Cornwall
Author: Gilbert Hunter Doble
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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The Saints of Cornwall
Author: Gilbert Hunter Doble
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781861430472
Category : Christian saints
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781861430472
Category : Christian saints
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
The Saints of Cornwall
Author: Gilbert H. Doble
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian saints
Languages : en
Pages :
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian saints
Languages : en
Pages :
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