The Breviary of Britain, with selections from The History of Cambria

von David Powel, Humphrey Llwyd

220 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Reihe: MHRA Tudor and Stuart Translations
• Themen: Biographie, Literatur und Literaturwissenschaft Geschichte und Kritik
• ISBN: 9780947623937
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.09.2011
• Größe: 234 x 156 mm
• Verlag: Texts and Translations
• Herausgegeben von: Philip Schwyzer