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Cambria. Cambria is a name for Wales, being the Latinised form of the Welsh name for the country, Cymru. [1] The term was not in use during the Roman (when Wales had not come into existence as a distinct entity) or the early medieval period. After the Anglo-Saxon settlement of much of Britain, a territorial distinction developed between the new ...
Annales Cambriae: page view from MS. The Annales Cambriae ( Latin for Annals of Wales) is the title given to a complex of Latin chronicles compiled or derived from diverse sources at St David's in Dyfed, Wales. The earliest is a 12th-century presumed copy of a mid-10th-century original; later editions were compiled in the 13th century.
Literature. This glossary of literary terms is a list of definitions of terms and concepts used in the discussion, classification, analysis, and criticism of all types of literature, such as poetry, novels, and picture books, as well as of grammar, syntax, and language techniques. For a more complete glossary of terms relating to poetry in ...
Descriptio Cambriae. The Descriptio Cambriae or Descriptio Kambriae ( Description of Wales) is a geographical and ethnographic treatise on Wales and its people dating from 1193 or 1194. The Descriptio ’s author, variously known as Gerald of Wales or as Giraldus Cambrensis, was a prominent churchman of Welsh birth and mixed Norman -Welsh ancestry.
Giordano Bruno – La Cena de le Ceneri (Ash Wednesday Supper) [ 3] John Dee – 48 Claves angelicae (48 Angelic Keys, written in Kraków) [ 4] James VI of Scotland – Some Reulis and Cautelis to be observit and eschewit in Scottis poesie. David Powel – The Historie of Cambria, now called Wales (first printed history of Wales) [ 5] Reginald ...
Victor H. Mair. Victor Henry Mair (/ mɛər /; [1] born March 25, 1943) is an American sinologist currently serving as a professor of Chinese at the University of Pennsylvania. Among other accomplishments, Mair has edited the standard Columbia History of Chinese Literature and the Columbia Anthology of Traditional Chinese Literature.
v. t. e. The history of literature is the historical development of writings in prose or poetry that attempt to provide entertainment or education to the reader, as well as the development of the literary techniques used in the communication of these pieces. Not all writings constitute literature.
In recent centuries, the definition has expanded to include oral literature, much of which has been transcribed. [3][4] Literature is a method of recording, preserving, and transmitting knowledge and entertainment. It can also have a social, psychological, spiritual, or political role.