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Druids : a very short introduction / Barry Cunliffe.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Very short introductionsPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 145 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780191576300
  • 0191576301
  • 9780191613784
  • 0191613789
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Druids.DDC classification:
  • 299.16 22
LOC classification:
  • BL910 .C86 2010eb
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
The Druids in time and space -- The European theatre -- The archaeology of religious practice at the time of the Druids -- Enter the Druids: the first contacts -- Altars steeped in human blood -- Twilight in the far west -- Renaissance and rediscovery -- Romanticism and the rise of nationalism -- Neodruids and the neopagans -- So, who were the Druids?
Summary: Who were the Druids? What do we know about them? Do they still exist today? The Druids first came into focus in Western Europe - Gaul, Britain, and Ireland - in the second century BC. They are a popular subject; they have been known and discussed for over 2,000 years and few figures flit so elusively through history. They are enigmatic and puzzling, partly because of the lack of knowledge about them has resulted in a wide spectrum of interpretations. Barry Cunliffe takes the reader through the evidence relating to the Druids, trying to decide what can be said and what can't be said about them.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-139) and index.

The Druids in time and space -- The European theatre -- The archaeology of religious practice at the time of the Druids -- Enter the Druids: the first contacts -- Altars steeped in human blood -- Twilight in the far west -- Renaissance and rediscovery -- Romanticism and the rise of nationalism -- Neodruids and the neopagans -- So, who were the Druids?

Who were the Druids? What do we know about them? Do they still exist today? The Druids first came into focus in Western Europe - Gaul, Britain, and Ireland - in the second century BC. They are a popular subject; they have been known and discussed for over 2,000 years and few figures flit so elusively through history. They are enigmatic and puzzling, partly because of the lack of knowledge about them has resulted in a wide spectrum of interpretations. Barry Cunliffe takes the reader through the evidence relating to the Druids, trying to decide what can be said and what can't be said about them.

Print version record.