Beunans Meriasek
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Beunans Meriasek is a Cornish religious play written in Late Cornish, likely around 1504. It focuses on the life of Meriasek, the patron saint of Camborne, and includes themes of salvation, the nature of evil, and the relationship between church and state. The play is set in Cornwall and Brittany and features a pagan tyrant who expels Meriasek, only to be defeated by the Duke of Cornwall. This narrative has been interpreted as a reference to the rebellion following Perkin Warbeck's landing in Cornwall in 1497. The manuscript of Beunans Meriasek was completed in 1504 by Dominus Hadton.12
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…Cornwall and Brittany, the play Beunans Meriasek (from a manuscript dated 1504; Eng. trans. Beunans Meriasek) is a life of Meriasek, the patron saint of the Cornish town of Camborne. A pagan tyrant, identified as a member of the House of Tudor, expels Meriasek from Cornwall and is in turn…
Read More…Cornwall and Brittany, the play Beunans Meriasek (from a manuscript dated 1504; Eng. trans. Beunans Meriasek) is a life of Meriasek, the patron saint of the Cornish town of Camborne. A pagan tyrant, identified as a member of the House of Tudor, expels Meriasek from Cornwall and is in turn…
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Beunans Meriasek (“The Life of Meriasek [or Meriadoc]”), on the patron saint of Camborne, is held to be considerably later: the manuscript in which it is found was completed in 1504 by one Dominus Hadton, thought to have been a canon of the Collegiate Church…
Read MoreBeunans Meriasek (“The Life of Meriasek [or Meriadoc]”), on the patron saint of Camborne, is held to be considerably later: the manuscript in which it is found was completed in 1504 by one Dominus Hadton, thought to have been a canon of the Collegiate Church…
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