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
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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
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Höhe: 229 mm
Breite: 152 mm
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978-1-4051-4570-1 (9781405145701)
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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.
List of maps. Preface.
1. Introduction.
2. A Database Approach.
3. The Long Arm of Coincidence.
4. Selected Celtic-Looking Strings and Elements.
5. The distribution of the Selected Celtic-Looking Elements.
6. The Extent of Celtic Names: i. Northern Europe (above 48 latitude) .
7. The Extent of Celtic Names: ii. Central Europe (latitudes 44-47).
8. The Extent of Celtic Names: iii. Southern Europe (latitude 43 and southwar.
9. The Extent of Celtic Names: iv. Asia Minor (west of longitude +35) with v. Note on Remaining Areas around the Mediterranean (north of latitude 35 and west of longitude +35).
10. The Extent of Celtic Names: vi. Africa and Asia (south of latitude 35 and east of longitude +35).
11. The Extent of Celtic Names: Summary.
12. Prospects for Further Research.
Abbreviations.
Bibliography.
Index of Place-Names
