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• Celtic Myths

Celtic from the West: Alternative Perspectives from Archaeology, Genetics, Language and Literature
edited by Barry Cunliffe and John T. Koch
This book is an exploration of the new idea that the Celtic languages originated in the Atlantic Zone during the Bronze Age, approached from various perspectives pro and con, archaeology, genetics, and philology. This Celtic Atlantic Bronze Age theory represents a major departure from the long-established, but increasingly problematical scenario in which the story of the Ancient Celtic languages and that of peoples called Keltoí Celts are ...
Paperback. Price GB £36.00

An Atlas for Celtic Studies: Archaeology and Names in Ancient Europe and Early Medieval Ireland, Britain and Brittany
by John T. Koch, in collaboration with Raimund Karl, Antone Minard and Simon O'Faolain
An Atlas for Celtic Studies is a unique and comprehensive reference book that presents a huge amount of information on what is known about the Celts in Europe in the form of detailed maps. It combines thousands of Celtic place- and group names, as well as Celtic inscriptions and other mappable linguistic evidence. Moving away from a narrative story of the Celts, the aim of this ground-breaking publication is to empower the reader with a ...
Hardback. 'Reprint under consideration' - in practice this may mean that the book goes out of print, but orders will be recorded. Price GB £50.00

Tartessian 2: The Inscription of Mesas do Castelinho ro and the Verbal Complex. Preliminaries to Historical Phonology
by John T. Koch
The inscription from Mesas do Castelinho, south Portugal, was discovered in September 2008. With 82 readable signs it is now the longest of the corpus of 95 Tartessian inscriptions. These texts survive from the Early Iron Age in the south-western Iberian Peninsula, the earliest writing from Atlantic Europe. By recombining word roots, prefixes and endings previously attested, the new inscription permits a major breakthrough with the language, ...
Paperback. Price GB £19.95

Rethinking Celtic Art
edited by Duncan Garrow, Chris Gosden and J D Hill
'Early Celtic art' - typified by the iconic shields, swords, torcs and chariot gear we can see in places such as the British Museum - has been studied in isolation from the rest of the evidence from the Iron Age. This book reintegrates the art with the archaeology, placing the finds in the context of our latest ideas about Iron Age and Romano-British society. The contributions move beyond the traditional concerns with artistic styles and ...
Paperback. Reprinting - orders recorded. Price GB £35.00

Landscape Perception in Early Celtic Literature
by Francesco Benozzo
This pioneering work shows how Celtic cultures understood the place of human beings in their natural environment in ways fundamentally different from our own. Benozzo explores the unique unfolding of landscapes in early Irish and Welsh texts, including Tain Bo Cuailgne, The Voyage of Bran, the Gododdin and the mythological Taliesin poem on the Battle of the Trees. 260p (Celtic Studies Publications 2003)
Paperback. Price GB £19.95

Myth and History: Ethnicity & Politics in the First Millennium British Isles
by Stephen James Yeates
Our recent understanding of British history has been slowly unravelling thanks to new techniques such as DNA analysis, new archaeological data and reassessment of the literary evidence. There are considerable problems in understanding the early history of Britain; sources for the centuries from the first Roman invasion to 1000 AD are few and contradictory, the archaeological record complex and there is little collaboration or agreement between ...
Paperback. Not yet published - advance orders taken. Publisher's Price GB £29.95, Our Price GB £23.95

Blood and Mistletoe: The History of the Druids in Britain
by Ronald Hutton
Crushed by the Romans in the first century A.D., the ancient Druids of Britain left almost no reliable evidence behind. Because of this, historian Ronald Hutton shows, succeeding British generations have been free to reimagine, reinterpret, and reinvent the Druids. Druids have been remembered at different times as patriots, scientists, philosophers, or priests; sometimes portrayed as corrupt, bloodthirsty, or ignorant, they were also seen as ...
Paperback. Price GB £16.99

Tome: Studies in Medieval Celtic History and Law in Honour of Thomas Charles-Edwards
edited by Fiona Edmonds and Paul Russell
These essays explore aspects of early medieval Wales, Ireland and Scotland. The first half of the book focuses on historical, archaeological and epigraphic matters, with topics including political and ecclesiastical organisation, Viking age sculpture, and Irish boundary ferta. The second half of the book comprises studies of medieval Irish and Welsh legal texts. 238p (Boydell 2011)
Hardback. Price GB £55.00

Caesar's Druids: Story of an Ancient Priesthood
by Miranda Aldhouse-Green
Ancient chroniclers, including Julius Caesar himself, made the Druids and their sacred rituals infamous throughout the Western world. But in fact, as Miranda Aldhouse-Green shows in this fascinating book, the Druids' day-to-day lives were far less lurid and much more significant. Exploring the various roles that Druids played in British and Gallic society during the first centuries B.C. and A.D. - not just as priests but as judges, healers, ...
Hardback. Price GB £25.00

The Celts
by Wolfgang Meid
This introduction to "the Celts" was first published in 2007 as a volume of Reclam's renowned Universalbibliothek and is now presented in an English version, with some revisions and additional footnotes. There are many introductions to the Celts and to matters Celtic, most of which have a concentration on archaeology and material culture. Wolgang Meid, however, a linguist and philologist, stresses the non-material aspects, relying more on ...
Hardback. Price GB £40.00