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The Breviary of Britain with selections from The History of Cambria

The Breviary of Britain with selections from The History of Cambria - Hardcover

by Humphrey Llwyd, David Powel
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Availability:In StockContributor:Humphrey Llwyd, Philip Schwyzer, David PowelSeries:Mhra Tudor and Stuart TranslationsTheme:Chronological Period/16th Century, Cultural Region/BritishPublish date:5/10/2013Pages:220
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Texts and TranslationsISBN-13:9781781880814ISBN-10:1781880816UPC:9781781880814Book Category:Literary Criticism, HistoryBook Subcategory:English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Europe, ModernBook Topic:Great Britain, 16th CenturySize:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.56 inchesWeight:0.486Product ID:SCCC0HP1CQ

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.

Languages:EnglishPublisher:Texts and TranslationsISBN-13:9781781880814ISBN-10:1781880816UPC:9781781880814Book Category:Literary Criticism, HistoryBook Subcategory:English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Europe, ModernBook Topic:Great Britain, 16th CenturySize:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.56 inchesWeight:0.486Product ID:SCCC0HP1CQ
Schwyzer, Philip: - 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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Humphrey Llwyd, Philip Schwyzer, David Powel

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Humphrey Llwyd, David Powel

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