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Ancient Celtic Placenames in Europe and Asia Minor (Publications of the Philological Society)
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An original study revealing the history of place–names from Ireland to Anatolia, from Scotland to the Apennines, and from to Andalusia the Black Seas.
- Includes numerous original maps and uncovers new methodology for linguistic geography
- Uses a dataset of over 20,000 names recorded by Greek and Latin authors such as Polybius, Caesar and Tacitus and by early geographers such as Strabo, Pliny, Ptolemy and the Ravenna Cosmographer
- A significant work for archaeologists, historians and philologists studying the early distribution of Celtic and other Indo–European languages
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #630396 in Books
- Published on: 2006-06-05
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 420 pages
Editorial Reviews
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"Taken as a whole, this book is a triumphant vindication of the value of philology applied in a systematic and discerning fashion to a major historical problem." Antiquity
From the Back Cover
Early Celtic–speakers left their traces in place names from Ireland to Anatolia, from Scotland to the Apennines, and from Andalusia to the Black Sea. This original study reveals their full extent for the first time, exploiting a dataset of over 20,000 names recorded by Greek and Latin authors such as Polybius, Caesar and Tacitus and by early geographers such as Strabo, Pliny, Ptolemy and the Ravenna Cosmographer.
Patrick Sims–Williams’s results are significant for archaeologists, historians and philologists studying the early distribution of Celtic and other Indo–European languages, while linguists will be interested in the novel methods he applies to linguistic geography.
About the Author
Patrick Sims–Williams is Professor of Celtic Studies in the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, and was formerly Reader in Celtic and Anglo–Saxon in the University of Cambridge. He is the author of Religion and Literature in Western England, 600–800 (1990), Britain and Early Christian Europe (1995), and The Celtic Inscriptions of Britain: Phonology and Chronology, c. 400–1200 (2003). He is a co–editor of Ptolemy: Towards a Linguistic Atlas of the Earliest Celtic Place–Names of Europe (2000) and New Approaches to Celtic Place–Names in Ptolemy’s Geography (2005), and he edits Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies. He has been a Fellow of the British Academy since 1996.
