A new edition of Cornwall’s First Golden Age – the critical synthesis of the history of Cornwall in its period of independence and initial colonisation from the 400s to the 1100s – is now available, back by overwhelming public demand (or at least a handful of requests).
Revised, considerably restructured and updated to include the latest research, this book dissects the consensus view on Cornwall’s early medieval past and finds it wanting.
In it you can discover how
- Cornwall was never an unquestioned part of the Roman city-state of Dumnonia
- for a time in the fifth and sixth centuries, Tintagel was the major entry port in the British Isles for Mediterranean goods and the centre of one of Britain’s most powerful political units, one with its own overseas colonies for a time
- kings were occasionally seen but, after the 500s, rarely heard from for long periods
- the landscape and settlement pattern was ripped up and reshaped in the seventh and eighth centuries
- Cornwall survived as an independent entity for so long – for 500 years after the Romans left.
For more and a list of chapter titles see here. And the book can be ordered from here.
See here for the concept of a golden age.
Cornish studies resources 
Mainly interested in my ancestors, the Gueguens, who were reportedly a part of the Dumnonia warrior clan but if Cornwall has no relation to the Dumnonians should i drop my interest in the history of Cornwall? Thanks, Dr. William Gueguen Gouveia
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