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This book brings together a number of specialist scholarly articles published previously in the series Cornish Studies, and presents them in revised form as a history of Cornwall in the early modern period, focussing especially on issues of language, identity and rebellion in the decades between 1490 and 1690.

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Author:   Philip Payton
Publisher:   University of Exeter Press
Imprint:   University of Exeter Press
ISBN:  

9781905816217

ISBN 10:   1905816219
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   31 January 2020
Audience:   General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Table of Contents

Cornwall in the Age of Rebellion Philip Payton Where Cornish was Spoken and When? A Provisional Synthesis Matthew Spriggs 'a . . . concealed envy against the English': A Note on the aftermath of the 1497 Rebellions in Cornwall Philip Payton Tyranny in Beunans Meriasek Lynette Olson The Helston Shoemakers' Gild and a Possible Connection with the 1549 Rebellion Joanna Mattingly Glasney's Parish Clergy and the Tregear Manuscript D.H. Frost 'On My Grave a Marble Stone': Early Cornish Memorialization Paul Cockerham 'Sir Richard Grenville's Creatures': The New Cornish Tertia. 1644-46 Mark Stoyle Afterlife of an Army: The Old Cornish Regiments, 1643-44 Mark Stoyle William Scawen (1600-1689) - A Neglected Cornish Patriot and Father of the Cornish Language Revival Matthew Spriggs Who was the Duchesse of Cornwall in Nicholas Boson's (c1660-70) 'The Duchesse of Cornwall's Progresse to see the Land's End . . .? Matthew Spriggs The Recent Historiography of Early Modern Cornwall Mark Stoyle Propaganda and the Tudor State or Propaganda of the Tudor Historians Bernard Deacon Conclusion Philip Payton

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Philip Payton is Emeritus Professor in the University of Exeter and Professor of History at Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia, and is the former Director of the Institute of Cornish Studies in the University of Exeter. He edited Cornish Studies, published annually from 1993-2013, the only series of publications that seeks to investigate and understand the complex nature of Cornish identity, as well as to discuss its implications for society and governance in contemporary Cornwall. He has written extensively on Cornish topics, and recent books include A.L. Rowse and Cornwall: A Paradoxical Patriot (2005), Making Moonta: The Invention of Australia's Little Cornwall (2007), John Betjeman and Cornwall: 'The Celebrated Cornish Nationalist' (2010), and (edited with Alston Kennerley and Helen Doe), The Maritime History of Cornwall (2014). He has recently been awarded South Australian Historian of the Year 2017 by the History Council of South Australia.

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