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SIMS-WILLIAMS, PATRICK

Patrick Sims-Williams is a Professor at the Welsh Department at Aberystwyth University. He has recently completed a book on Irish influence on medieval Welsh literature, published by Oxford University Press in late 2010.

Patrick researches the early Celtic languages, including Old Irish, Old and Middle Welsh, and the ancient Continental Celtic languages. In 2009 he delivered the John V. Kelleher Lecture in Harvard University on ‘How our understanding of early Irish literature has progressed’. He has edited Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies since 1981 and is a Fellow of the British Academy, directing the Academy’s research project on the Development of the Welsh Language (Datblygiad yr Iaith Gymraeg). Patrick is a Member of The Welsh Academy.

Selected Publications:
Religion and Literature in Western England, 600-800 (Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England) (Cambridge University Press, 1990)
Britain and Early Christian Europe: Studies in History and Culture (Variorum Collected Studies) (Variorum, 1995)
The Celtic Inscriptions of Britain: Phonology and Chronology, C.400-1200 (Publications of the Philological Society) (Wiley-Blackwell, 2002)
Ancient Celtic Place-Names in Europe and Asia Minor (Publications of the Philological Society) (Wiley-Blackwell, 2006)
Studies on Celtic Languages before the Year 1000 (CMCS, 2007)
Irish Influence on Medieval Welsh Literature (Oxford University Press, 2010)

Contributed to:
Ptolemy: Towards a Linguistic Atlas of the Earliest Celtic Place-names of Europe (co-editor) (CMCS, 2000)
The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, II, The Middle Ages (contributor) (Cambridge University Press, 2005)
New Approaches to Celtic Place-Names in Ptolemy’s Geography (co-editor) (Ediciones Clásicas, 2005)
Latin Learning and English Lore I (contributor) (University of Toronto Press, 2005)
Additions to Alfred Holder's Celtic Thesaurus by Georges Cousin (editor) (CMCS, 2006)
Gaulois et Celtique Continental (contributor) (Droz, 2007)
The Geography of Celtic Personal Names in the Latin Inscriptions of the Roman Empire (co-writer) (CMCS, 2007)
A Corpus of Latin Inscriptions of the Roman Empire Containing Celtic Personal Names (co-writer) (CMCS, 2007)
Crossing Boundaries/Croesi Ffiniau: Proceedings of the XIIth International Congress of Celtic Studies, University of Wales, Aberystwyth (co-editor) (CMCS, 2007)
Celtic and Other Languages in Ancient Europe (contributor) (Salamanca: Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca, 2008)
Evidence and Counter-Evidence: Essays in Honour of Frederik Kortlandt (contributor) (Rodopi, 2008)
Hidden Histories: Discovering the Heritage of Wales (contributor) (Royal Commission of the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales, 2008)
Trysorau Cudd: Darganfod Treftradaeth Cymru (contributor) (Comisiwn Brenhinol Henebion Cymru, 2008)
Dictionary of Continental Celtic Place-names: A Celtic Companion to the Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World (contributor) (CMCS, 2010)