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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...

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.