Cornwall in the Age of Rebellion, 1490-1690

edited by Philip Payton

Book cover: Cornwall in the Age of Rebellion, 1490-1690

Extent: 438 pages

Publisher: University of Exeter Press

Subjects: Early Modern & Renaissance Studies

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(July 2021)

ISBN: 9781905816200

6.1 x 9.17 inches

Price: $107.00

In stock

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, focusing especially on issues of language, identity and rebellion in the period 1490-1690.


The expansion of the English state in the early modern era provoked resistance throughout Britain and Ireland, not least in Cornwall where this intrusion was challenged in a series of dramatic uprisings in the two centuries between 1490 and 1690.In this wide-ranging collection of chapters, several based on articles published previously in the series Cornish Studies, Philip Payton brings together an impressive team of international scholars, including Paul Cockerham, Bernard Deacon, D.H. Frost, Lynette Olson, Joanna Mattingly, Matthew Spriggs, and Mark Stoyle, to present a history of early modern Cornwall, focusing especially on the related issues of language, religion, identity and rebellion.

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, 1643-44Mark 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

  • Edited by Philip Payton

"This volume makes an important contribution to our understanding of Cornwall over a 200-year period. The chapters which have edited by an internationally-leading historian offer a fresh perspective on the age of rebellion in Cornwall. A valuable source of reference, the book significantly expands the range and depth of research in the field of Cornish Studies." Prof. Mairead Nic Craith MRIA, FAcSS, Chair of Cultural Heritage & Anthropology, Heriot-Watt University "This powerful multidisciplinary set of essays offers a nuanced and robust interpretation of the dynamic role of Cornwall in the turbulent shaping of the Tudor and Stuart state... The collection's level of detail, profound analysis and new insights will do much to provoke fresh debates as to the salience of the Cornish experience within British socio-economic and political development." Colin H. Williams, Cardiff and Cambridge University "Cornwall in the Age of Rebellion captures the most insightful recent scholarship on the turbulent and distinctive Cornish experience of two centuries of dramatic political change, a period in which a modern Cornish identity was created. Between the covers of this important volume Trelawny lives!" Professor Chris Williams, University College Cork