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People assume that parish church dedications are ancient, but many of those in use today are inventions of the 18th and 19th centuries. This volume offers information about the history of English parish churches, providing an aspect on religion in...

Cornwall's place-names and churches commemorate an enormous number of local and little-known saints - such as St Austell, St Ives, and St Just. This book explains how this came about, how Cornwall came to be Christian after the end of the Roman...

Medieval children lived in a rich oral culture of poetry: lullabies, nursery rhymes, songs, riddles, tongue-twisters, nonsensical verses and insults. They read or listened to stories in verse: ballads of Robin Hood, romances, and comic tales. Poems...

This collection of essays examines the character of church life in Devon and Cornwall from earliest times to the present day. It is aimed both at the general reader with an interest in local church history, and at scholars who may find interesting...

Cornwall is more Celtic than English in its religious history. Its churches, chapels, and place-names commemorate not only the major saints of Christendom, but also many minor Celtic ones, unique to single churches. This book considers them all.