Humphrey Llwyd, The Breviary of Britain with selections from The History of Cambria
Edited by Philip Schwyzer
Click cover to enlarge Buy hardback at: Buy paperback at: Booksellers & libraries: | Tudor and Stuart Translations 5 Modern Humanities Research Association 1 September 2011 • 220pp ISBN: 978-1-781880-81-4 (hardback) • RRP £44.99, $61.99, €53.99 ISBN: 978-0-947623-93-7 (paperback) • RRP £24.99, $34.99, €29.99 ISBN: 978-1-781880-19-7 (JSTOR ebook) ISBN: 978-1-123097-69-6 (Google ebook) • RRP £4.95 Sample: Google Books • Access online: Books@JSTOR RenaissanceEnglishWelshTranslation 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. 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. Reviews:
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Bibliography entry: Schwyzer, Philip (ed.), Humphrey Llwyd, The Breviary of Britain with selections from The History of Cambria, Tudor and Stuart Translations, 5 (Cambridge: MHRA, 2011) First footnote reference: 35 Humphrey Llwyd, The Breviary of Britain with selections from The History of Cambria, ed. by Philip Schwyzer, Tudor and Stuart Translations, 5 (Cambridge: MHRA, 2011), p. 21. Subsequent footnote reference: 37 Schwyzer, p. 47. (To see how these citations were worked out, follow this link.) Bibliography entry: Schwyzer, Philip (ed.). 2011. Humphrey Llwyd, The Breviary of Britain with selections from The History of Cambria, Tudor and Stuart Translations, 5 (Cambridge: MHRA) Example citation: ‘A quotation occurring on page 21 of this work’ (Schwyzer 2011: 21). Example footnote reference: 35 Schwyzer 2011: 21. (To see how these citations were worked out, follow this link.) This title is distributed on behalf of MHRA by Ingram’s. Booksellers and libraries can order direct from Ingram by setting up a free ipage® Account: click here for more. Permanent link to this title: www.mhra.org.uk/publications/Humphrey-Llwyd-Breviary-Britain-with-selections-from-History-Cambria www.mhra.org.uk/publications/tst-5 |