West Britons

Klappentext West Britons provides a fresh interpretation of the bloodiest! most devastating years in Cornwall's history and a wholly new perspective on the history of the far South West of Britain. The book also includes transcriptions of a number of previously unpublished documents! and a list of some 300 Cornish Royalist officers. Zusammenfassung West Britons provides a fresh interpretation of the bloodiest! most devastating years in Cornwall's history and a wholly new perspective on the history of the far South West of Britain. The book also includes transcriptions of a number of previously unpublished documents! and a list of some 300 Cornish Royalist officers.

Autorentext
Mark Stoyle is senior lecturer in early modern history at the University of Southampton. He specialises in early modern British history, with particular research interests in the 'British crisis' of the 1640s; cultural, ethnic and religious identity in Wales and Cornwall between 1450 and 1700; and popular memory of the English Civil War from 1660 to the present day.

Klappentext
West Britons provides a fresh interpretation of the bloodiest, most devastating years in Cornwall's history and a wholly new perspective on the history of the far South West of Britain. The book also includes transcriptions of a number of previously unpublished documents, and a list of some 300 Cornish Royalist officers.

Inhalt
"The Dissidence of Despair" - rebellion and identity in early modern Cornwall; "Knowest Thou My Brood?" - locating the Cornish in Tudor and Stuart England; "England No England But Babel" - English nationalism and the English Civil War; "Pagans or Paragons?" - images of the Cornish during the English Civil War; "The Last Refuge of a Scoundrel" - Sir Richard Grenville and Cornish particularism; "The Gear Rout" - the Cornish Rising of 1648 and the Second Civil War; William Scawen - a 17th-century Cornish patriot; "A Monument of Honour" - the Cornish Royalist tradition after 1660. Appendices: "A Gratulacion to Cornish Men", October 1642; the Parliamentarian summons to Cornwall, September 1645; the King's Cornish Regiments, 1642-1646; extracts from William Scawen's "Antiquities Cornu-Britannic".

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