Humphrey Llwyd, 'The Breviary of Britain', with Selections from 'The History of Cambria' - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1781880816 ISBN 13: 9781781880814

Verlag: Modern Humanities Research Association, 2013

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Críticas:

‘These are complex texts, the further study of which will be facilitated, and should be encouraged, by this edition.’ — David N. Parsons, Translation and Literature 21, 2012, 246

‘This modern edition of Humphrey Llwyd is a welcome addition to the scholarship ... Schwyzer's work presents a compelling case for a greater recognition of Llwyd's contributions.’ — Ronald H. Fritze, Sixteenth Century Journal XLIV, 2013, 200

 

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Humphrey Llwyd's Breviary of Britain (1573) is both the first Tudor description of Britain and a passionate and learned defence of Welsh historical traditions. Featuring the first reference in English to the 'British Empire', Thomas Twyne's translation would influence Elizabethan writers from Michael Drayton to John Dee. The volume also includes relevant illustrative selections of David Powel's History of Cambria (1584). Based on Llwyd's own translation of the medieval Welsh chronicle, Brut y Tywysogyon, Powel's History was an important source for Spenser's Faerie Queene and Drayton's Poly-Olbion, and remained the standard history of medieval Wales until the nineteenth century. Philip Schwyzer is Associate Professor of Renaissance Literature in the Department of English, University of Exeter. He has published extensively on Anglo-Welsh literary relations and visions of British antiquity in the early modern period. His books include Literature, Nationalism and Memory in Early Modern England and Wales (2004), Archaeologies of English Renaissance Literature (2007); he is co-editor with Willy Maley of Shakespeare and Wales: From the Marches to the Assembly (2010).

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• Verlag: Modern Humanities Research Association
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1781880816
• ISBN 13: 9781781880814
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 220
• Herausgeber: Schwyzer Philip