A Cornish Revival

A Cornish Revival
Author: Tim Shenton
Publisher: EP BOOKS
Total Pages: 408
Release: 2003
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:
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Samuel Walker is a central, but greatly neglected, figure of the early eighteenth century revival in Cornwall. He always spoke from a full heart, moved by compassion and zeal for perishing souls. He was prepared at all times to proclaim, in a forceful and uncompromising fashion, the essential doctrines of the Christian faith. He awakened a careless town out of its lethargy and the result was astonishing.

Henry Jenner's Handbook of the Cornish Language

Henry Jenner's Handbook of the Cornish Language
Author: Henry Jenner
Publisher:
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2010
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9781904808374
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Revised ed. of: A handbook of the Cornish language, chiefly in its latest stages: with some account of its history and literature. London: D. Nutt, 1904.

Celtic Music and Dance in Cornwall

Celtic Music and Dance in Cornwall
Author: Lea Hagmann
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 227
Release: 2021-10-07
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1000452808
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Focusing on the Cornish Music and Dance Revival, this book investigates the revivalists’ claims about Cornwall’s cultural distinctiveness and Celtic heritage, both which are presently used as arguments to promote the English county’s political status as an independent Celtic nation. The author describes two different revival movements that aim at reviving Cornwall’s culture but seem to have entirely different ideas about the concept of authentic Celto-Cornish music and dance. In the first part, historical sources connect Cornwall to its Celtic roots, with an analysis of how the early Cornish revivalists used, changed and adapted this material during the 1980s in order to create a Celto-Cornish revival corpus. In the second part, the book addresses the desire of the Cornish people to express their local and Celtic identities through music and dance, and various practices musicians and dancers have developed to do so. The Nos Lowen movement, which started in the year 2000, is important in this study because it has expanded and newly interpreted the concepts of ‘traditional’, ‘Celtic’ and ‘authentic’.

Cornish Today

Cornish Today
Author: Nicholas Williams
Publisher:
Total Pages: 335
Release: 2006
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9781904808077
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The publication of "Cornish Today" by Kernewek dre Lyther in 1995 was a landmark event in the Cornish Revival. In that book, Professor Williams offered the first professional analysis of the various systems of Cornish in use, and also outlined his suggested emendations for Unified Cornish. The present revised edition makes this most important work available to those who may have missed the earlier editions. As companion volumes to "Cornish Today," two further works by Professor Williams are being published: "Writings on Revived Cornish" and "Towards Authentic Cornish." Nicholas Williams was born in Essex. While still at school he taught himself Cornish and became a bard of the Cornish Gorsedd for proficiency in the Cornish language in Newquay in 1962, taking the bardic name Golvan. He won first prize in the Gorsedd verse competition in 1961, 1964, and 1965. He read classics, English language, and Celtic in Oxford and was awarded a PhD in Celtic in Queen's University, Belfast in 1972. He is currently Associate Professor in the School of Irish, Celtic Studies, Folklore and Linguistics in University College, Dublin. He has written widely on the Celtic languages and literatures, in particular Irish, Manx and Cornish. He published "Cornish Today" in 1995, "Clappya Kernowek" in 1997, "English-Cornish Dictionary" in 2000 (second edition 2006) and Testament Noweth in 2002. He won first prize in the Gorsedd verse competitions of 1997, 1998, and 1999. With Graham Thomas he has produced an editio princeps of the recently discovered Cornish play, "Bewnans Ke," which was published by the University of Exeter Press in October 2006. Philip Payton, Professor of Cornish Studies, University of Exeter, has described Nicholas Williams as "the foremost international authority" in the Cornish language."

Victorian Religious Revivals

Victorian Religious Revivals
Author: David Bebbington
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2012-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 0199575487
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A study of religious revival in its broad historical and historiographical context. David Bebbington provides detailed case-studies of religious awakenings that took place between 1841 and 1880 in Britain, North America and Australia, looking at pre-conditions, causes, and trends for the phenomenon.

Desky Kernowek

Desky Kernowek
Author: Nicholas Williams
Publisher:
Total Pages: 492
Release: 2012-05-01
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9781904808954
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Aimed at both beginners and the more advanced student, this guide uses Standard Cornish, an orthography that is at once authentic and wholly phonetic. The whole grammar of Cornish is discussed and both Middle and Late Cornish variants are accommodated.

Saving Languages

Saving Languages
Author: Lenore A. Grenoble
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2005-11-03
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9781139445429
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Language endangerment has been the focus of much attention and as a result, a wide range of people are working to revitalize and maintain local languages. This book serves as a general reference guide to language revitalization, written not only for linguists and anthropologists, but also for language activists and community members who believe they should ensure the future use of their languages, despite their predicted loss. Drawing extensively on case studies, it sets out the necessary background and highlights central issues such as literacy, policy decisions, and allocation of resources. Its primary goal is to provide the essential tools for a successful language revitalization program, such as setting and achieving realistic goals, and anticipating and resolving common obstacles. Clearly written and informative, Saving Languages will be an invaluable resource for all those interested in the fate of small language communities around the globe.

Revival Fires and Awakenings

Revival Fires and Awakenings
Author: Mathew Backholer
Publisher: Exposure Publishing
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2006
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781846853142
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Spanning four centuries, this book features 30 accounts of revivals and awakenings in nineteen countries from six continents. Whilst each revival is different the author reveals the common characteristics and reoccurring experiences which come to the fore during times of God's visitation. Read about the heaven-sent blessings, conviction of sin, conversions, healings, physical phenomena, miracles, signs and wonders, deliverances and more. Learn from the past, be challenged for today and be inspired for the future! The book covers: Revivals in Scripture, understanding revivals and awakenings, the characteristic and fruit of revival, why revival is needed, how to see revival, prayer and intercession for revival, opposition, and why revivals cease, visions and prophecies of revival for the United Kingdom and beyond, our responsibility, repentance and personal holiness. The book features some of the most powerful revivals and awakenings from world history, including: The Great Awakenings (American and Britain), 1859 (USA, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and England) and 1904 revivals, Azusa Street Outpouring, Congo, Korean, Indonesian, Lewis and Harris, Pensacola and Argentinean revivals and includes moves of God in Cornwall, Dundee, Kilsyth, East Anglia, North Uist, Ghana, China, Japan, Manchuria, New Zealand, Soviet Union, Nigeria, India and many other places. Read about some of the greatest revivalist's that ever lived: Jonathan Edwards, George Whitefield, John and Charles Wesley, Howell Harris, Charles Finney, General Booth, J.C. Lamphier, C.H. Spurgeon, Evan Roberts, William Seymour, Jonathan Goforth, Jock Troup, J. Edwin Orr, Duncan Campbell, Tommy Hicks, Mary Morrison, Carlos Annacondia, Steve Hill, John Kilpatrick and many others. The author: Mathew Backholer films and co-presents ByFaith TV (www.byfaithtv.co.uk), which airs on Christian networks around the world. He has travelled all over the globe on Christian missions and has carried a passion for revival for more than a decade. As an evangelist and former staff member of the Bible College of Wales (founded by Rees Howells), he led teams of students for weeks of evangelism, outreach clubs aimed for children, youth camps, and ministered as an itinerant preacher. Mathew continues his world missions, writes for the ByFaith website (www.byfaith.co.uk) and is the author of Mission Preparation Training.