The Saints of Cornwall

by Nicholas Orme

Overview

Cornwall is famous for its saintly place-names: St Austell, St Germans, St Ives, and St Michael's Mount. This book explains why the Cornish honoured so many saints—some famous, some obscure—and how studying saints uncovers the history of the county in medieval times. It provides an account of every saint who was venerated in Cornwall up to the Reformation—the first time this has ever been done for an English county. Every relevant church, chapel, altar, image, and holy well is listed, together with every relevant writing, folk-story and festival, from the earliest times to the present day.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198207658
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	03/09/2000
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

University of Exeter

Table of Contents

Introduction : Early Cornish HistoryDictionary of SaintsBibliographyIndex

Editorial Reviews

"Should prove useful to historians of religion as well as those interested in Cornish history."—Albion

From the Publisher

Nicholas Orme, as a social and religious historian who writes with meticulous has long placed south-west Britain in his debt by examining medieval schooling, ecclesiastical organization and a gost of related topics...[this is] a rigorous textual-historical catalogue, using the best-defined region that couls now profitably be followed for any other part of Atlantic, Britain and Ireland.
—The Times Literary Supplement

Charles Thomas