Cornwall in the Age of Rebellion, 1490–1690

Philip Payton is Emeritus Professor in the University of Exeter and Professor of History at Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia, and is the former Director of the Institute of Cornish Studies in the University of Exeter. He edited Cornish Studies, published annually from 1993 to 2013, the only series of publications that seeks to investigate and understand the complex nature of Cornish identity, as well as to discuss its implications for society and governance in contemporary Cornwall.He has written extensively on Cornish topics, and recent books include A.L. Rowse and Cornwall: A Paradoxical Patriot (2005), Making Moonta: The Invention of Australia’s Little Cornwall (2007), John Betjeman and Cornwall: ‘The Celebrated Cornish Nationalist’ (2010), and (edited with Alston Kennerley and Helen Doe), The Maritime History of Cornwall (2014). He has recently been awarded South Australian Historian of the Year 2017 by the History Council of South Australia.

• 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 OlsonThe Helston Shoemakers’ Gild and a Possible Connection with the 1549 Rebellion Joanna MattinglyGlasney’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, 1643–44 Mark StoyleWilliam Scawen (1600–1689) – A Neglected Cornish Patriot and Father of the Cornish Language Revival Matthew SpriggsWho was the Duchesse of Cornwall in Nicholas Boson’s (c.1660–70) ‘The Duchesse of Cornwall’s Progresse to see the Land’s End . . .?  Matthew SpriggsThe Recent Historiography of Early Modern Cornwall Mark StoylePropaganda and the Tudor State or Propaganda of the Tudor Historians Bernard Deacon Conclusion Philip Payton