Author: Ellis, Peter Berresford
Title: The Story of the Cornish Language
Description: Tor Mark Press, Penryn, Cornwall, 1990. Second Edition, Softcover (Saddle-stapled). Near Fine Condition. 9780850253108 Peter Berresford Ellis, historian, literary biographer and novelist, has published 50 books to date under his own name and that of his pseudonym Peter Tremayne. An expert on Celtic history and culture, he is best known in Cornwall as the author of The Cornish Language and its Literature (Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1974) which is still regarded as the definitive history of the language and was a set text in the Cornish Language Board's examinations. Chapter titles include:: The Cornish; The Conquest of Cornwall; Middle Cornish; The Cornish Scholars;The Decline; Did Cornish Die?; The Revivalists; The Growth of the Revival; & Cornish: Present and Future. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 32 pages. no Dust Jacket as published.. Red titles front. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Genealogy & Local History; Cornwall; Celtic Language; Common Brittonic Language; England; Language & Linguistics. ISBN: 0850253101. ISBN/EAN: 9780850253108. Inventory No: 4848.

Keywords: BZDB227 Genealogy & Local History/Cornwall/Language & Linguistics/Celtic Language/Common Brittonic Language Genealogy & Local History; Cornwall; Celtic Language; Common Brittonic Language; England; Language & Linguistics. Unbranded ISBN: 0850253101 EAN:


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