Cornwall: A History: Revised and Updated Edition

Philip Payton’s classic history of Cornwall, first published in 1996, is brought into the twenty-first century in this revised and updated edition from University of Exeter Press. Cornwall: A History begins with the region’s geology and prehistory, moving through Celtic times to the creation of the kingdom of Kernow and its relationship with neighboring England. Payton examines the political accommodation of medieval Cornwall by the expanding English state as well as the flowering in the middle ages of literature in the Cornish language. He explores resistance to English intrusion, in the rebellions of 1497 and 1549 and in the Civil War, and Cornwall’s role in the subsequent expansion of Britain’s global influence and industry, and concludes with a consideration of the nature of twenty-first century Cornwall.

History

Payton, Philip

Europe

University of Exeter Press

This book is a study of all the known schools in the six counties of the West of England, from the Conquest to the Reformation. Most are described for the very first time or in greater detail than ever before. 120 schools are included: those of principal cities, smaller towns and villages, the new endowed schools and chantry schools of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and the educational institutions of the monasteries and religious houses.  The account of each school covers (as far as possible) its origins, constitution, endowment and history up to the middle of the sixteenth century. Biographies are included of more than 100 founders, benefactors and schoolmasters. A full introduction explains the background of medieval school history and draws attention to points of special interest in the West of England. There are also ten maps and genealogies.  The study covers a wide range of topics. As well as making a valuable contribution to the history of education, it casts a new light on the history of the Church and of lay society in the Middle Ages. Medieval people emerge as far more involved with education and learning than is generally thought. There is much in the text of interest to local historians concerned with local towns and villages.

Education in the West of England, 1066-1548

Orme, Nicholas

Picturing Cornwall: Landscape, Region and the Moving Image

Cornwall’s representation on screen has been dominated by the romantic coastal edge, from the earliest days of the moving image to the recent BBC adaptation of Winston Graham’s maritime adventure series Poldark. Drawing on art history to illuminate the construction of Cornwall on film, Rachel Moseley examines newsreels, contemporary art and amateur films, and mainstream film and television. Stressing the sociopolitical significance of the moving image, Moseley investigates the absence of Cornwall’s interior on film, arguing that the emphasis on the coast in Cornwall’s screen history has had a significant and ongoing economic impact on the area. The first book to focus on the region’s construction in the moving image, Picturing Cornwall is sure to generate new lines of inquiry across both film studies and human geography.

Humor & Entertainment

Moseley, Rachel

Movies

A history of one of England's finest universities, a centre of excellence in subjects ranging from French to Arabic Studies.

University Of Exeter: A History (South-West Studies)

Clapp, B.W.

In 1857 Everard Digby, an extrovert Cambridge scholar, published the first scientific treatise on swimming – and one of the first on any modern sport. Six months later he was expelled from his college, and died in obscurity as a country parson. Nicholas Orme rehabilitates Digby as a great pioneer of the history of sport.The book opens with a detailed history of swimming in Britain from the Romans to the sixteenth century, which is followed by an account of Digby’s life and work and its impact on swimming down to the eighteenth century. The book also includes the first modern edition of Digby’s treatise, in the English version of 1595, with the 43 original illustrations.

Early British Swimming 55BC-AD1719 (Exeter Maritime Studies)

This is the sixth volume in the continuing series if The Mineral Statistic of the United Kingdom 1845-1913 and begins to cover the South West Peninsular. This volume looks at the last years of the industry, tracing its decline from a high point in the mid-nineteenth century to near extinction in the years immediately preceding the First World War.

Devon and Somerset Mines: (Mineral Statistics Of The United Kingdom, 1845-1913) (The Mineral Statistics of the United Kingdom 1845-1913)

Burt, Roger

Waite, Peter

Burnley, Raymond

Discussing the actor mutiny of 1733, theatre censorship, controversial plays and Fielding's forgery of an actor's biography, the book contends that some subversive Augustan and Georgian artists were early Brechtians.Reconstructions of lost episodes in theatre history include a recounting of Fielding's last days as a stage satirist before his Little Haymarket theatre was closed, Charlotte Charke's performances as Macheath and Polly Peachum in The Beggar's Opera and the 1740 staging of Jonathan Swift's Polite Conversation on a double bill with Shakespeare's Merry Wives . . . Some documents in this collection offer another perspective on theatre history by employing fiction - speculative reconstructions of Georgian theatre events for which historical facts are scarce or missing.  Brecht also employed fiction to reconsider history in short stories he wrote about Lucullus and Socrates, and a novel about Julius Caesar.  The stories and several new letters attributed to Fielding delve into theatre history and keep some of its controversy alive in new ways, historicizing fiction and theatre somewhat as Brecht did. It offers an unconventional, new reading of theatre history, Brecht's tradition and stage satire.

Eighteenth-Century Brechtians: Theatrical Satire in the Age of Walpole (Exeter Performance Studies)

Schechter, Joel

From Roman times down to the eighteenth century, the South West of England comprised a striking example of the importance of matters of security and defence to a local society easily threatened by external enemies and by internal conflicts and tensions.  In Security and Defence in South-West England Valerie A. Maxfield examines the problems of internal security from the point of view of the Roman army, as it held down newly-conquered territory. Robert Higham considers the variety of responses - notably in the form of fortifications - which medieval society offered to external as well as internal problems. Joyce Youings analyses the particular difficulties of organising the local militia in the Tudor period. Anne Duffin and Ivan Roots adopt a Cornish perspective on problems of defence in the seventeenth century. And David J. Starkey considers the interplay of trade and security in the eighteenth century, as witnessed in the contribution of the North Atlantic fishing industry to the manning of the Royal Navy.  Over all, these studies provide a fascinating series of vignettes illustrating perennial and enduring problems in the history of the British Isles.

Security And Defence In South-West England Before 1800 (Exeter Studies in History)

Americas

The Dream of the Rood is a poem that has entranced generations of scholars. It is one of the greatest religious poems in English literature, the work of a nameless poet of superb genius. This edition presents a conservative text with variant reading described in the notes. In his introduction Professor Swanton describes the Vercelli Book, in which the full text of The Dream of the Rood is found, and gives an account of the Ruthwell Cross, the sources for which are scattered and not normally familiar to students of Old English. The relationship between the two texts, the doctrine behind the poem and its style and structure are also discussed. The edition includes extensive notes and glossary.

The Dream of the Rood (Exeter Mediaeval English Texts & Studies)

Literature & Fiction

Swanton

Poetry

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Cornwall: A History: Revised and Updated Edition

Cornwall: A History: Revised and Updated Edition

Education in the West of England, 1066-1548

Picturing Cornwall: Landscape, Region and the Moving Image

University Of Exeter: A History (South-West Studies)

Early British Swimming 55BC-AD1719 (Exeter Maritime Studies)

Devon and Somerset Mines: (Mineral Statistics Of The United Kingdom, 1845-1913) (The Mineral Statistics of the United Kingdom 1845-1913)

Eighteenth-Century Brechtians: Theatrical Satire in the Age of Walpole (Exeter Performance Studies)

Security And Defence In South-West England Before 1800 (Exeter Studies in History)

The Dream of the Rood (Exeter Mediaeval English Texts & Studies)