Inventor of Britain - The Work and Legacies of Humphrey Llwyd — The Work and Legacies of Humphrey Llwyd

Disgrifiad Cymraeg / Welsh Description

Llyfr sy'n archwilio gwaith a gwaddol yr ysgolhaig Cymraeg o'r unfed ganrif ar bymtheg, Humphrey Llwyd. Drwy ei fapiau a'i weithiau hanesyddol a daearyddol, dylanwadodd Llwyd yn rhyfeddol ar ddealltwriaeth o Brydain – yn cynnwys y cysyniad o'r Ymherodraeth Brydeinig.

Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description

This book explores the works and legacy of the sixteenth-century Welsh scholar Humphrey Llwyd. Through his maps and works of history and geography, Llwyd had an extraordinary influence on understandings of Britain – including the idea of British Empire.

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Cynnwys / Table of Contents

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

Bywgraffiad yr Awdur / Author Biography

Philip Schwyzer is Professor of Renaissance Literature at the University of Exeter, and the author of studies including Shakespeare and the Remains of Richard III (2013) and Literature, Nationalism and Memory in Early Modern England and Wales (2004).