Historical sketch of the parish of Saint Neot (Cornwall). Including the life of Saint Neot, together with a description of the Parish church and its windows, and the Ballad of Tregeagle
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
25.04.2019
Verlag
Alpha EditionsSeitenzahl
64
Maße (L/B/H)
21.6/14/0.4 cm
Gewicht
94 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-93-5360-924-5
Where Cornwall turns from moor to myth, Saint Neot keeps his quiet watch. Stone, glass, legend, and memory. William A. Axworthy's Historical sketch of the parish of Saint Neot (Cornwall) draws you into one small parish where devotion, craft, and storytelling meet. At its heart lies a saint neot biography that treats the medieval Cornish saint not as a distant emblem but as a living presence in local tradition, placing him among the wider world of Cornish saints and legends. Alongside this ecclesiastical history study, Axworthy guides the reader through the parish church and its celebrated cornish church windows, attentive to what they reveal about faith, patronage, and village identity. The volume also preserves the tregeagle ballad folklore, a darkly comic strand of Cornish imagination that has travelled far beyond the parish boundaries. Read as a parish history book, it satisfies the lover of antiquarian local history; consulted as a genealogy local history reference, it offers a grounded sense of place and continuity; carried as a Cornwall heritage travel guide, it enriches every visit with context. Its value within cornwall parish history and british antiquarian studies lies in this careful weaving of sacred life, material culture, and popular legend. For casual readers it moves briskly; for researchers it rewards re-reading, footpath by footpath, pane by pane. Republished by Alpha Editions in a careful modern edition, this volume preserves the spirit of the original while making it effortless to enjoy today - a heritage title prepared for readers and collectors alike.
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