Sacrament an Alter/The Sacrament of the Altar

A critical edition with translation

D. H. FROST

The first ever critical edition of a pivotal Cornish-language text. Comprehensive approach presents parallel transcription, edited version, translation and key sources.

In-depth commentary offers many insights into the reception of the material.

This first ever critical edition of a pivotal Cornish-language text opens to the Tudor historian—and the general reader—a new window onto a crucial example of the reception of John Foxe, and gives fascinating insights into a possible alliance between Church Papism and recusancy in Tudor Cornwall.

PRAISE FOR SACRAMENT AN ALTER/THE SACRAMENT OF THE ALTAR

This first critical edition of the Cornish text Sacrament an Alter is a tour-deforce, clearly identifying the manuscript's context and theology, as well as greatly contributing to our knowledge of the Cornish language as spoken at the start of the last quarter of the 16th century.

Matthew Spriggs, Robyn Doohan Visiting Fellow in Celtic Studies, University of Sydney

This splendid scholarly edition provides major new insights into Cornish language, literature and history. The text is a very complex one, and Dr Frost has done it proud, taking great care to investigate thoroughly all aspects of its background. Only he could have treated so authoritatively all the areas which need to be covered for a full understanding of this text.

Oliver Padel, Honorary Research Fellow, Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic, University of Cambridge

This volume makes an excellent initial contribution to Exeter's major new series of academic editions of Cornish literature. This hitherto little-studied and misunderstood text, which marks the transition from Middle to Modern Cornish, benefits for the first time from a full scholarly edition, the culmination of over twenty years' study by Frost.

Andrew Hawke, Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies

Biographical Note

D.H. Frost, recently retired, was the Principal of Holy Cross College and University Centre, Bury. He contributed to Philip Payton’s Cornwall in the Age of Rebellion 1490–1690, and Gerallt D. Nash’s Saving St Teilo’s. With Benjamin Bruch, he co-chairs the editorial board of the series 1,000 Years of Cornish.

PUBLICATION DATE 10 January 2023

PUBLISHER

University of Exeter Press

FORMAT | ISBN | PRICE

Hbk | 9781804130308 | £80.00 | $109.00 eBook available

SIZE 234 x 156 mm

PAGES 336pp

SERIES 1,000 Years of Cornish

BIC SUBJECTS

HRLC1, DSBB, HRCL

BISAC SUBJECTS

HIS037010, LCO017000

RIGHTS World