Andrew Breeze

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Andrew Breeze
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Born 6 July 1954
Flitwick, Bedfordshire
Residence Pamplona
Citizenship United Kingdom
Nationality English
Fields Linguistics[1]
Institutions University of Navarra (previously at Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies)
Alma mater University of Cambridge, University of Oxford
Known for Historical linguistics
Philology of Celtic languages
Onomastics, especially place-names

Andrew Breeze (born 6 July 1954), MA, DipCeltStud, PhD, FSA, FRHistS, has been a profesor de filología at the University of Navarra[1] since 1987.

Early life

Breeze was educated at Sir Roger Manwood's School, the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge. He is married with six children.

Work

Besides numerous research papers on philology, he is the author of Medieval Welsh Literature (Dublin, 1997)[2] and The Origins of the "Four Branches of the Mabinogi" (Leominster, 2009). He is also co-author with Professor Richard Coates of Celtic Voices, English Places (Stamford, 2000).

In 2015, he published a paper identifying the location of some of King Arthur's battles with locations in Southern Scotland and Northern England.[3] This led him to say King Arthur was most likely a Scottish general fighting Britons, rather than Anglo-Saxons.[4] Other scholars have questioned his methods, which they believe are based on superficial resemblances between place names.[5][6]

Books

1997 Medieval Welsh Literature, Four Courts Press (ISBN 1-85182-229-1).

2000 (with Richard Coates; including a contribution by David Horovitz) Celtic Voices, English Places: Studies of the Celtic Impact on Place-Names in England, Stamford: Shaun Tyas; (ISBN 1 900289 41 5).

2008 The Mary of the Celts, Gracewing (ISBN 978 0 85244 682 9)

2009 The Origins of the "Four Branches of the Mabinogi", Gracewing (ISBN 978 0 85244 553 2)

External links

  • [1], University of Navarra: Andrew Breeze, CV listing publications.

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