Inventor of Britain

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...

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description 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.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1589812025-05-01T04:13:27Z Inventor of Britain Schwyzer, Philip History;United Kingdom;16th century 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. 2025-04-30T04:08:11Z 2025-04-30T04:08:11Z 2025-04-29T08:52:42Z 2025 book https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/101200 9781837722228 9781837722242 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/158981 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/101200/1/9781837722235_WEB.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/101200/1/9781837722235_WEB.pdf University of Wales Press 10.16922/inventorofbritain 10.16922/inventorofbritain 0a623d1c-0963-4c53-880e-4ddd1a3612d7 9781837722228 9781837722242 274 Cardiff open access
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Inventor of Britain
title Inventor of Britain
title_full Inventor of Britain
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title_full_unstemmed Inventor of Britain
title_short Inventor of Britain
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