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Description edit
Licentious pagans or mystical druids? Rapacious vandals or noble warriors? The images we have of the Celts are dramatic and in this account of their history and culture, Nora Chadwick goes further than ever before in discovering who true they are. She reveals a people feared and admired in... read more
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First Sentence edit
The year 1871 was something of a turning-point for the study of the fast-growing, but still youthful, discipline of archaeology. The publication tht year of Charles Darwin's Descent of Man marked the final and decisive stage in the battle to free archaeologists from the stranglehold of the biblical interpretation of the past.
Table of Contents edit
Maps
Preface to the 1997 Reprint
Author's Preface
1. In search of the Celts
2. The Celts in Europe
3. The Origins of the Celtic Kingdoms in Britain and Ireland
4. The Development of he Celtic Kingdoms of the West
5. Institutions and Way of Life
6. Religion and Mythology
7. Christianity
8. Celtic Art
9. Celtic Literature
Further Reading
Index
Series & Lists edit
This book is in Folio Society. (publisher edition list)
Authors & Contributors edit
- Nora K. Chadwick (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Penguin Books
Country: UK
Publication Date: 1970
ISBN: N/A
Page Count: 301
Publisher: Penguin Books
Country: UK
Publication Date: 1970
ISBN: N/A
Page Count: 301
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: D70 .C47 1970
- Dewey: 909.04916
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