Inventor of Britain (eBook)

The Work and Legacies of Humphrey Llwyd

Philip Schwyzer (Herausgeber)

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2025
280 Seiten
University of Wales Press (Verlag)
978-1-83772-224-2 (ISBN)

Infos

The work of the map-maker and historian Humphrey Llwyd (1527–68) were a crucial contribution to a new vision of Britain in the early modern period. It lies close to the roots of the emerging ideology of British Empire, and Llwyd’s influence is to be found in the works of major English poets such as Edmund Spenser and Michael Drayton. His history of medieval Wales, Cronica Walliae, shaped Welsh historical traditions for centuries to come. Llwyd is also the earliest extant source for the legend of Prince Madoc, whose twelfth-century voyage to America shaped British fantasies of the New World from the reign of Elizabeth to the nineteenth century. This is the first book-length study of Llwyd’s works, influence and intellectual milieu, and contributions from scholars in the fields of history, geography and literary studies cover the range of Llwyd’s achievement as a cartographer, historian and chorographer of Wales and Britain.

Inhalt

Introduction
Humphrey Llwyd: First Historian of Wales?
Huw Pryce
The Description of Britain and Urban Chorography on the March of Wales
Helen Fulton
‘Set forth in all poynctes’—navigating the maps and mappings of Humphrey Llwyd
Keith Lilley, Rebecca Milligan, and Catherine Porter
Matthew Parker, Sacred Geography, and the British Past
Alexandra Walsham
The ‘hodgepodge trash of Lud’: George Buchanan on Humphrey Llwyd’s Vision of Britain
Roger Mason
Visions of Britain in Llwyd, Spenser, and Drayton
Philip Schwyzer
British Warrior Women in Cymbeline, Bonduca and the Court of James VI & I
Tristan Marshall
Painted People: Race-Making in the Invention of Britain
Lorna Hutson
Appendix: ‘In praise of Humphrey Llwyd: Poems by Gruffudd Hiraethog, Lewis ab Edward, and Wiliam Cynwal’, with translations by Mary Burdett-Jones

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.4.2025
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: Britain • humphrey • Inventor • Legacies • Llwyd • of • Philip • Schwyzer • Work
• ISBN-10: 1-83772-224-2 / 1837722242
• ISBN-13: 978-1-83772-224-2 / 9781837722242