Papers by Marion Loeffler
J.B. Metzler eBooks, 2020
J.B. Metzler eBooks, 2020
J.B. Metzler eBooks, 2020
J.B. Metzler eBooks, 2020
J.B. Metzler eBooks, 2020
J.B. Metzler eBooks, 2020
J.B. Metzler eBooks, 2020
Huntington Library Quarterly, Dec 1, 2021
r t e rly 8 4 (4) , p p. 8 2 5-8 5 2. 1 0. 1 3 5 3/ hl q. 2 0 2 1. 0 0 4 5 'Here in Britain': Wil... more r t e rly 8 4 (4) , p p. 8 2 5-8 5 2. 1 0. 1 3 5 3/ hl q. 2 0 2 1. 0 0 4 5 'Here in Britain': William Fleetwood, his Welsh translators and Anglo-Welsh Networks before 1721 The following article explores the circumstances and content of the first privately financed political translations from English into Welsh, both renderings of a thanksgiving sermon preached by William Fleetwood, Bishop of Ely, in 1716. It understands itself as a contribution to explaining the beginnings of a process which confirmed Wales's separate linguistic and cultural identity while binding it politically into a British nation demarcated by the Anglican Church rather than by ethnic identities, and to explore a hitherto relatively uncharted Welsh-language dimension to eighteenth-century British pamphleteering. Linda Colley's work has explored the process of British nation building in the long eighteenth century with reference to the importance of religion, of war, and most recently of political 'texts that were easily replicated', 1 but extra-parliamentary Anglo-Welsh cross-border interactions and Welsh-language texts have remained underexplored, especially for the earlier eighteenth century. 2 Historians have tended to stay on either side of geographical and linguistic borders instead of exploring the cross-border workings of the bilingual translation networks which underscored Wales's separate cultural and religious identity, while embedding the Welsh in the British political nation. 3 This is different to the long nineteenth 1
J.B. Metzler eBooks, 2020
Edinburgh University Press eBooks, Jun 16, 2021
J.B. Metzler eBooks, 2020
J.B. Metzler eBooks, 2020
J.B. Metzler eBooks, 2020
J.B. Metzler eBooks, 2020
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