Understanding Celtic Religion

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Publisher : University of Wales Press
ISBN 13 : 1783167939
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding Celtic Religion written by and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2015-11-20 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focused in scope, and emphasizes methodological aspects of Celtic scholarship. This collection of original essays illuminates the importance of theoretical considerations in the study of early medieval sources.

Author : John Arnott MacCulloch
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Religion of the Ancient Celts written by John Arnott MacCulloch and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scant records remain of the ancient Celtic religion beyond some eleventh- and twelfth-century written material from the Irish Celts and the great Welsh document Mabinogion. This classic study by a distinguished scholar, builds not only upon the surviving texts but also upon folk customs derived from the rituals of the old cults. A masterly and extremely readable survey, it offers a reconstruction of the essentials of Celtic paganism: fascinating glimpses into primitive forms of worship involving rites centered on rivers and wells, trees and plants, and animals; and examinations of evidence from Celtic burial mounds to explore beliefs and customs related to the culture of the dead, including rites of rebirth and transmigration.

Author : Bernhard Maier
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 9780851156606
Total Pages : 718 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dictionary of Celtic Religion and Culture written by Bernhard Maier and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 1997 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dictionary, with more than 1000 articles, provides a comprehensive survey of all important aspects of Celtic religion and culture, covering both the prehistoric continental Celts and the later, medieval culture that found written form long after the Celts had settled in the British Isles. Articles in the dictionary also cover the interaction between Celtic and Roman civilisations, and the seminal input of medieval Celtic legend into the Arthurian tradition. The continental and insular Celtic languages, both ancient and modern, are described, and there is a full account of the Celtic deities known to us from the inscriptions and iconography of the classical world. Celtic art and agriculture, the Ossian myth, the Irish Renaissance, and the history of Celtic studies are among other areas treated in depth.

Author : Graham Webster
Publisher : Barnes & Noble
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Celtic Religion in Roman Britain written by Graham Webster and published by Barnes & Noble. This book was released on 1987 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : J. A. Macculloch
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317846222
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religion Of The Ancient Celts written by J. A. Macculloch and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2005. This work, a broad history of the Celtic religion, explores all aspects of Celtic life and worship. Topics include the Celtic people, the Gods of the Gaul, the Irish mythological cycle, gods and mem, nature plant and animal worship, cosmogony, sacrifice, festivals, the Druids, magic and rebirth.

Author : J. A. MacCulloch
Publisher : Literary Licensing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 9781497916012
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Religion of the Ancient Celts written by J. A. MacCulloch and published by Literary Licensing, LLC. This book was released on 2014-03 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Is A New Release Of The Original 1911 Edition.

Author : Edward Anwyl
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Celtic Religion in Pre-Christian Times written by Edward Anwyl and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sharon Paice MacLeod
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786487038
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Celtic Myth and Religion written by Sharon Paice MacLeod and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2011-11-08 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comprehensive overview of Celtic mythology and religion, encompassing numerous aspects of ritual and belief. Topics include the presence of the Celtic Otherworld and its inhabitants, cosmology and sacred cycles, wisdom texts, mythological symbolism, folklore and legends, and an appreciation of the natural world. Evidence is drawn from the archaeology of sacred sites, ethnographic accounts of the ancient Celts and their beliefs, medieval manuscripts, poetic and visionary literature, and early modern accounts of folk healers and seers. New translations of poems, prayers, inscriptions and songs from the early period (Gaulish, Old Irish and Middle Welsh) as well as the folklore tradition (Modern Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Welsh, Cornish, Breton and Manx) complement the text. Information of this kind has never before been collected as a compendium of the indigenous wisdom of the Celtic-speaking peoples, whose traditions have endured in various forms for almost three thousand years.

Author : Miranda Aldhouse Green
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752468111
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gods of the Celts written by Miranda Aldhouse Green and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2011-09-30 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a fascinating book about the Celts and their religion, which covers all aspects of the gods, ritual customers, cult-objects and sacred places of the ancient Celtic peoples. The first chapter introduces the Celts and the evidence they have left behind, and places them in their geographical and chronological context. The following chapters cover the various cults of the sun and the sky, the mother-godesses and fertility, war, death and the underworld, water gods and healers, animals and animism, and symbolism and imagery. This is a rewarding overview of the evidence for Celtic religions, beliefs and practices which uses modern scholarship to bring an obscure, but captivating part of European history to life. It covers 500 BC to AD 400, and embraces the whole of the Celtic world from Ireland to Australia.

Author : Philip Freeman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190460490
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Celtic Mythology written by Philip Freeman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most people have heard of the Celts--the elusive, ancient tribal people who resided in present-day England, Ireland, Scotland and France. Paradoxically characterized as both barbaric and innocent, the Celts appeal to the modern world as a symbol of a bygone era, a world destroyed by the ambition of empire and the spread of Christianity throughout Western Europe. Despite the pervasive cultural and literary influence of the Celts, shockingly little is known of their way of life and beliefs, because very few records of their stories exist. In this book, for the first time, Philip Freeman brings together the best stories of Celtic mythology. Everyone today knows about the gods and heroes of the ancient Greeks, such as Zeus, Hera, and Hercules, but how many people have heard of the Gaulish god Lugus or the magical Welsh queen Rhiannon or the great Irish warrior Cú Chulainn? We still thrill to the story of the Trojan War, but the epic battles of the Irish Táin Bó Cuailgne are known only to a few. And yet those who have read the stories of Celtic myth and legend-among them writers like J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis-have been deeply moved and influenced by these amazing tales, for there is nothing in the world quite like them. In these stories a mysterious and invisible realm of gods and spirits exists alongside and sometimes crosses over into our own human world; fierce women warriors battle with kings and heroes, and even the rules of time and space can be suspended. Captured in vivid prose these shadowy figures-gods, goddesses, and heroes-come to life for the modern reader.