Ancient Celtic Placenames in Europe and Asia Minor, Number 39

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Ancient Celtic Placenames in Europe and Asia Minor, Number 39

Patrick Sims-Williams

Description

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

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.

Features

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

Series

Publications of the Philological Society

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