... did they come from? – become somewhat redundant. But how is it that the belief in one or more Celtic invasions into these islands first came about? Some of the details we will return to later, but the short answer is that the idea really took off after the antiquarian scholar Edward Lhuyd coined...

... François Fleriot Léon Vannetais Caesar Julius Diodorus Siculus Eratosthenes Iberia inscriptions Strabo Golasecca culture Italy Lepontic language group Livy Lusitanian language group Atlantic seaways Late Bronze Age river valleys Julius Caesar David language Edward Lhuyd museum names...

... Macpherson James Ossian Scotland Barzaz Breiz Eisteddfods Interceltic Congresses La Villemarqué Vicomte Hersart de Le Men R F Williams Edward nationalism romanticism symbolism archaeology Julius Caesar William Camden David Edmund Gibson language John Leland Edward Lhuyd James Macpherson...

... part analyses William Wynne’s History of Wales (1697), a revised version of David Powel’s Historie reissued down to the nineteenth century. Lastly, the fifth part assesses how far Edward Lhuyd (1659/60?–1709), keeper of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford and an antiquary...

...This chapter discusses the literary traditions of Wales and describes two major elements which helped inject new life into the cultural life of the Welsh. It discusses the development of the provincial printing-press and the scholarly zeal of Edward Lhuyd, the versatile Oxford scholar, who sought...

.... Building on work by John Cramsie and Daniel Woolf, it discusses works by John Leland, William Camden, Edward Lhuyd, and other early antiquarians to demonstrate the intensely intertextual nature of tour writing from Gerald’s work onwards. Borrowings, citations, and critiques of previous writers...

...Edward Lhuyd began his career as a student of natural history, but gradually turned to antiquarianism, in which his fluency in Welsh gave him an advantage over many students of the non-English past of the British Isles. By 1695, an antiquarian project of his showed a strong interest...

...Edward Lhuyd conducted fieldwork in Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Cornwall, and Brittany between 1697 and 1701. In its course, he investigated antiquities and studied natural history; he also made and acquired wordlists, sometimes with the comparison of languages in mind. These included an Irish...

...Edward Lhuyd’s Glossography of 1707, the published result of the programme of research which had included his lexicographical fieldwork, brought together a whole set of pioneering lexicographical achievements: the first comparative wordlist of Welsh, Irish, and the languages most...

...Focusing on his friendships with the younger scholars Thomas Gale and Edward Lhuyd, this chapter explores Aubrey’s late interest in philology and linguistic evolution. Gale’s study of the Antonine Itinerary bled over into his notes on Aubrey’s Monumenta and may...