Patrick Sims-Williams
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 2021185 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Patrick Sims-Williams |
| PRENOMES | Patrick |
| SOBRENOME | Sims-Williams |
| ASSINATURA | SIMS-WILLIAMS P |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Aberystwyth University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3306-7012 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 18 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 25 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1975 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Celtic Britain’ in Pre‐roman Archaeology, Reconsidered
For forty years archaeologists have avoided referring to pre‐Roman Britain and its inhabitants as ‘Celtic’ on the grounds that contemporaries never described them as such. This is incorrect. The second‐century BC astronomer Hipparchus quotes Pytheas ( c. 320 BC ) as having referred to Britons as ‘Keltoi’. This is significant because Pytheas is the only writer before Julius Caesar known to have travelled in Britain. It does not prove that the Brit…
Cadelling ffraw and the Date of Marwnad Cynddylan
Anachronistic rhymes can indicate that lines of Welsh poetry cannot go back to an early date. This note considers the elegy on the seventh-century Cynddylan. This has been held to be non-contemporary because the word braw 'terror', which never had a final fricative, rhymes with words that originally did have one. It is pointed out that the manuscript reading, ffraw , need not be connected with braw ; instead, it may be the adjective ffraw 'brisk,…
‘Dark’ and ‘Clear’ Y in Medieval Welsh Orthography
A famous exception to the ‘phonetic spelling system’ of Welsh is the use of for both /ǝ/ and the retracted high vowel /ɨ(:)/. This double use of was almost universally adopted by c . 1330, when a grammarian labelled /ǝ/ and /ɨ/ as ‘dark y ’ and ‘clear y ’ and illustrated them with polysyllables such as ystyr /ˈǝstɨr/ ‘meaning’, in which the value of was predictable from the position of in the word. At that time the three‐way system of for /i(:)/,…
An Alternative to ‘Celtic from the East’ and ‘Celtic from the West
This article discusses a problem in integrating archaeology and philology. For most of the twentieth century, archaeologists associated the spread of the Celtic languages with the supposed westward spread of the ‘eastern Hallstatt culture’ in the first millenniumbc. More recently, some have discarded ‘Celtic from the East’ in favour of ‘Celtic from the West’, according to which Celtic was a much olderlingua francawhich evolved from a hypothetical…
The Book of Llandaf as a Historical Source
The location of the Celts according to Hecataeus, Herodotus, and other Greek writers
La localisation des Celtes d’après Hécatée, Hérodote et d’autres auteurs grecs C’est par erreur que l’on a compris le texte d’Hécatée et d’Hérodote, deux contemporains des premières inscriptions celtiques du Nord de l’Italie et du Sud de la Suisse, comme des documents localisant les Celtes en Autriche et dans le Sud-Ouest de l’Allemagne, ce qui a eu pour résultat malheureux de conférer l’étiquette celtique à la culture halstattienne de cette régi…
Bronze- and Iron-Age Celtic-speakers
In 1998 the author published ‘Genetics, linguistics and prehistory: thinking big and thinking straight’, a critique of late twentieth-century attempts to synthesize the disciplines of genetics, linguistics and archaeology. This paper assesses subsequent progress, using examples from various parts of the world, including Britain, Denmark, Finland, France, Frisia, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Micronesia, Portugal, Spain and the Canary Islands.…
Genetics, linguistics, and prehistory
Many claims have been made linking ancient languages with genetically identified prehistoric and modern populations. There is much new 'evidence' and intense debate on the validity and appropriateness of such interdisciplinary work. Here Patrick Sims-Williams provides a timely comment on linguistics and the quest for ancient populations
Shorter Notices
Journal Article SHORTER NOTICES Get access PATRICK SIMS-WILLIAMS PATRICK SIMS-WILLIAMS University of WalesAberystwyth Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CX, Issue 438, September 1995, Pages 964-b–965, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CX.438.964-b Published: 01 September 1995
Numbering system for the hammerhead
Shorter Notices
Shorter Notices Get access PATRICK SIMS-WILLIAMS PATRICK SIMS-WILLIAMS St John's CollegeCambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CVII, Issue CCCCXXV, October 1992, Pages 978-b–979, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CVII.CCCCXXV.978-b Published: 01 October 1992
The Double System of Verbal Inflexion in Old Irish
The settlement of England in Bede and the Chronicle
For the modern historian of the Anglo-Saxon settlement of England, 1849 should be a more significant date than 449. In 1849 John Mitchell Kemble published The Saxons in England . Earlier historians, even critical ones like Sharon Turner and J. M. Lappenberg, had basically retold the narratives of Bede and the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle , with picturesque details from Henry of Huntingdon and others. Kemble swept all that away: ‘I confess that the more …
Milred of Worcester's collection of Latin epigrams and its continental counterparts
Milred, who was bishop of Worcester from 743 × 745 to 774 × 775, is almost as shadowy a figure in the history of Anglo-Latin literature today as he was in the sixteenth century when John Leland recorded in his Commentarii de Scriptoribus Britannicis : ‘invidiosa vetustas Milredi monumenta destruxit’. The only composition by Milred that has come to light, in a single ninth-century continental manuscript, is the letter of consolation that he sent t…
Cuthswith, seventh-century abbess of Inkberrow, near Worcester, and the Würzburg manuscript of Jerome on Ecclesiastes
The fifth-century Italian manuscript of Jerome's Commentary on Ecclesiastes, Würzburg, Universitätsbibliothek, M. p. th. q. 2, which M. Adriaen takes as the base of his recent edition, is interesting to English scholars on various counts. On ir it bears a very early Old English inscription, in Anglo-Saxon majuscule which Lowe and Bischoff date c. 700: Cuthsuuithae. boec. thaerae abbatissan. (‘a book of Cuthswith the abbess’). In all probability t…
Continental influence at Bath monastery in the seventh century
Referring to the reign of Eorcenberht of Kent, 640–64, Bede writes: At that time, because there were not yet many monasteries founded in England, numbers of people from Britain used to enter the monasteries of the Franks or Gauls to practise the monastic life; they also sent their daughters to be taught in them and to be wedded to the heavenly bridegroom. They mostly went to the monasteries at Brie, Chelles and Andelys-sur-Seine
Studies on Celtic Languages Before the Year 1000
Sims-Williams, Patrick, Studies on Celtic Languages before the Year 1000 (Aberystwyth, CMCS Publications, 2007) RAE2008
The Visionary Celt
Le stereotype du celte visionnaire : enquete a partir de La Poesie des races celtiques de Renan. (1854)
Genetics, linguistics, and prehistory
Many claims have been made linking ancient languages with genetically identified prehistoric and modern populations. There is much new 'evidence' and intense debate on the validity and appropriateness of such interdisciplinary work. Here Patrick Sims-Williams provides a timely comment on linguistics and the quest for ancient populations
Bronze- and Iron-Age Celtic-speakers
In 1998 the author published ‘Genetics, linguistics and prehistory: thinking big and thinking straight’, a critique of late twentieth-century attempts to synthesize the disciplines of genetics, linguistics and archaeology. This paper assesses subsequent progress, using examples from various parts of the world, including Britain, Denmark, Finland, France, Frisia, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Micronesia, Portugal, Spain and the Canary Islands.…
The settlement of England in Bede and the Chronicle
For the modern historian of the Anglo-Saxon settlement of England, 1849 should be a more significant date than 449. In 1849 John Mitchell Kemble published The Saxons in England . Earlier historians, even critical ones like Sharon Turner and J. M. Lappenberg, had basically retold the narratives of Bede and the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle , with picturesque details from Henry of Huntingdon and others. Kemble swept all that away: ‘I confess that the more …
An Alternative to ‘Celtic from the East’ and ‘Celtic from the West
This article discusses a problem in integrating archaeology and philology. For most of the twentieth century, archaeologists associated the spread of the Celtic languages with the supposed westward spread of the ‘eastern Hallstatt culture’ in the first millenniumbc. More recently, some have discarded ‘Celtic from the East’ in favour of ‘Celtic from the West’, according to which Celtic was a much olderlingua francawhich evolved from a hypothetical…
The location of the Celts according to Hecataeus, Herodotus, and other Greek writers
La localisation des Celtes d’après Hécatée, Hérodote et d’autres auteurs grecs C’est par erreur que l’on a compris le texte d’Hécatée et d’Hérodote, deux contemporains des premières inscriptions celtiques du Nord de l’Italie et du Sud de la Suisse, comme des documents localisant les Celtes en Autriche et dans le Sud-Ouest de l’Allemagne, ce qui a eu pour résultat malheureux de conférer l’étiquette celtique à la culture halstattienne de cette régi…
Continental influence at Bath monastery in the seventh century
Referring to the reign of Eorcenberht of Kent, 640–64, Bede writes: At that time, because there were not yet many monasteries founded in England, numbers of people from Britain used to enter the monasteries of the Franks or Gauls to practise the monastic life; they also sent their daughters to be taught in them and to be wedded to the heavenly bridegroom. They mostly went to the monasteries at Brie, Chelles and Andelys-sur-Seine
Cuthswith, seventh-century abbess of Inkberrow, near Worcester, and the Würzburg manuscript of Jerome on Ecclesiastes
The fifth-century Italian manuscript of Jerome's Commentary on Ecclesiastes, Würzburg, Universitätsbibliothek, M. p. th. q. 2, which M. Adriaen takes as the base of his recent edition, is interesting to English scholars on various counts. On ir it bears a very early Old English inscription, in Anglo-Saxon majuscule which Lowe and Bischoff date c. 700: Cuthsuuithae. boec. thaerae abbatissan. (‘a book of Cuthswith the abbess’). In all probability t…
Continental influence at Bath monastery in the seventh century
Referring to the reign of Eorcenberht of Kent, 640–64, Bede writes: At that time, because there were not yet many monasteries founded in England, numbers of people from Britain used to enter the monasteries of the Franks or Gauls to practise the monastic life; they also sent their daughters to be taught in them and to be wedded to the heavenly bridegroom. They mostly went to the monasteries at Brie, Chelles and Andelys-sur-Seine
Cuthswith, seventh-century abbess of Inkberrow, near Worcester, and the Würzburg manuscript of Jerome on Ecclesiastes
The fifth-century Italian manuscript of Jerome's Commentary on Ecclesiastes, Würzburg, Universitätsbibliothek, M. p. th. q. 2, which M. Adriaen takes as the base of his recent edition, is interesting to English scholars on various counts. On ir it bears a very early Old English inscription, in Anglo-Saxon majuscule which Lowe and Bischoff date c. 700: Cuthsuuithae. boec. thaerae abbatissan. (‘a book of Cuthswith the abbess’). In all probability t…
Milred of Worcester's collection of Latin epigrams and its continental counterparts
Milred, who was bishop of Worcester from 743 × 745 to 774 × 775, is almost as shadowy a figure in the history of Anglo-Latin literature today as he was in the sixteenth century when John Leland recorded in his Commentarii de Scriptoribus Britannicis : ‘invidiosa vetustas Milredi monumenta destruxit’. The only composition by Milred that has come to light, in a single ninth-century continental manuscript, is the letter of consolation that he sent t…
The settlement of England in Bede and the Chronicle
For the modern historian of the Anglo-Saxon settlement of England, 1849 should be a more significant date than 449. In 1849 John Mitchell Kemble published The Saxons in England . Earlier historians, even critical ones like Sharon Turner and J. M. Lappenberg, had basically retold the narratives of Bede and the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle , with picturesque details from Henry of Huntingdon and others. Kemble swept all that away: ‘I confess that the more …
The Double System of Verbal Inflexion in Old Irish
Numbering system for the hammerhead
Shorter Notices
Shorter Notices Get access PATRICK SIMS-WILLIAMS PATRICK SIMS-WILLIAMS St John's CollegeCambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CVII, Issue CCCCXXV, October 1992, Pages 978-b–979, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CVII.CCCCXXV.978-b Published: 01 October 1992
Shorter Notices
Journal Article SHORTER NOTICES Get access PATRICK SIMS-WILLIAMS PATRICK SIMS-WILLIAMS University of WalesAberystwyth Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CX, Issue 438, September 1995, Pages 964-b–965, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CX.438.964-b Published: 01 September 1995
Genetics, linguistics, and prehistory
Many claims have been made linking ancient languages with genetically identified prehistoric and modern populations. There is much new 'evidence' and intense debate on the validity and appropriateness of such interdisciplinary work. Here Patrick Sims-Williams provides a timely comment on linguistics and the quest for ancient populations
Bronze- and Iron-Age Celtic-speakers
In 1998 the author published ‘Genetics, linguistics and prehistory: thinking big and thinking straight’, a critique of late twentieth-century attempts to synthesize the disciplines of genetics, linguistics and archaeology. This paper assesses subsequent progress, using examples from various parts of the world, including Britain, Denmark, Finland, France, Frisia, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Micronesia, Portugal, Spain and the Canary Islands.…
The location of the Celts according to Hecataeus, Herodotus, and other Greek writers
La localisation des Celtes d’après Hécatée, Hérodote et d’autres auteurs grecs C’est par erreur que l’on a compris le texte d’Hécatée et d’Hérodote, deux contemporains des premières inscriptions celtiques du Nord de l’Italie et du Sud de la Suisse, comme des documents localisant les Celtes en Autriche et dans le Sud-Ouest de l’Allemagne, ce qui a eu pour résultat malheureux de conférer l’étiquette celtique à la culture halstattienne de cette régi…
The Book of Llandaf as a Historical Source
An Alternative to ‘Celtic from the East’ and ‘Celtic from the West
This article discusses a problem in integrating archaeology and philology. For most of the twentieth century, archaeologists associated the spread of the Celtic languages with the supposed westward spread of the ‘eastern Hallstatt culture’ in the first millenniumbc. More recently, some have discarded ‘Celtic from the East’ in favour of ‘Celtic from the West’, according to which Celtic was a much olderlingua francawhich evolved from a hypothetical…
‘Dark’ and ‘Clear’ Y in Medieval Welsh Orthography
A famous exception to the ‘phonetic spelling system’ of Welsh is the use of for both /ǝ/ and the retracted high vowel /ɨ(:)/. This double use of was almost universally adopted by c . 1330, when a grammarian labelled /ǝ/ and /ɨ/ as ‘dark y ’ and ‘clear y ’ and illustrated them with polysyllables such as ystyr /ˈǝstɨr/ ‘meaning’, in which the value of was predictable from the position of in the word. At that time the three‐way system of for /i(:)/,…
Cadelling ffraw and the Date of Marwnad Cynddylan
Anachronistic rhymes can indicate that lines of Welsh poetry cannot go back to an early date. This note considers the elegy on the seventh-century Cynddylan. This has been held to be non-contemporary because the word braw 'terror', which never had a final fricative, rhymes with words that originally did have one. It is pointed out that the manuscript reading, ffraw , need not be connected with braw ; instead, it may be the adjective ffraw 'brisk,…
Studies on Celtic Languages Before the Year 1000
Sims-Williams, Patrick, Studies on Celtic Languages before the Year 1000 (Aberystwyth, CMCS Publications, 2007) RAE2008
The Visionary Celt
Le stereotype du celte visionnaire : enquete a partir de La Poesie des races celtiques de Renan. (1854)
Celtic Britain’ in Pre‐roman Archaeology, Reconsidered
For forty years archaeologists have avoided referring to pre‐Roman Britain and its inhabitants as ‘Celtic’ on the grounds that contemporaries never described them as such. This is incorrect. The second‐century BC astronomer Hipparchus quotes Pytheas ( c. 320 BC ) as having referred to Britons as ‘Keltoi’. This is significant because Pytheas is the only writer before Julius Caesar known to have travelled in Britain. It does not prove that the Brit…
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