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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.
Synopsis
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.
The Times Literary Supplement - Charles Thomas
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.
Editorials
Charles Thomas
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