Inventor of Britain - The Work and Legacies of Humphrey Llwyd

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.

Info autore

Philip Schwyzer is professor of Renaissance literature in the Department of English, University of Exeter.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Philip Schwyzer
• Con la collaborazione di: Philip Schwyzer (Editore), Schwyzer Philip (Editore)
• Editore: University of Wales Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 01.04.2025
• EAN: 9781837722228
• ISBN: 978-1-83772-222-8
• Pagine: 280
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata; Britain, European History, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, English, Humphrey, HISTORY / Modern / 16th Century, of, legacies, Work, Inventor, British & Irish history, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Philip, Cartography, map-making & projections, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, Literary studies: general, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, Cartography, map-making and projections, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, c 1500 to c 1600, Literary studies: c 1400 to c 1600, Llwyd, Schwyzer