Peter of Cornwall’s Book of Revelations

Robert Easting retired in 2010 from a Personal Chair in English Language and Literature at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, where he had taught since 1973. His publications on vision literature include two editions for the Early English Text Society: "St Patrick's Purgatory" (1991) and "The Revelation of the Monk of Eynsham" (2002). He has been a Minor Open Scholar and Senior Scholar, Wadham College, Oxford; Visiting Lecturer in English and American Literature, Keynes College, University of Kent; Visiting Scholar, Wolfson College, Oxford; and Visiting Fellow, Clare Hall, Cambridge. Richard Sharpe is professor of diplomatic in the University of Oxford and a fellow of Wadham College. He studied at Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating in Classics and Anglo-Saxon, Norse, & Celtic. An assistant editor of the "Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources" for nine years, he is general editor of the Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues and has published on medieval books and libraries before 1540 and on the Latin writers of Great Britain and Ireland.

In addition to the Liber revelationum, this edition includes several other works by Peter of Cornwall: his Account of St Patrick's Purgatory; the Visions of Ailsi; Visions at the Cistercian Abbey of Ham, Essex; Visions at Lessness, Kent; and other tales told by Peter of Cornwall.