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Ancient Celtic Placenames in Europe and Asia Minor, Number 39
Patrick Sims-Williams
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Description for Ancient Celtic Placenames in Europe and Asia Minor, Number 39
Paperback. 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. Series: Publications of the Philological Society. Num Pages: 420 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AF; CF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 151 x 25. Weight in Grams: 606.
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
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
420
Condition
New
Series
Publications of the Philological Society
Number of Pages
424
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781405145701
SKU
V9781405145701
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99-50
About Patrick Sims-Williams
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 ... Read more
Reviews for Ancient Celtic Placenames in Europe and Asia Minor, Number 39
"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