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The Celts : origins, myths & inventions / John Collis.
- Title
- The Celts : origins, myths & inventions / John Collis.
- Author
- Collis, John, 1944 May 19-
- Publication
- Stroud, Gloucestershire : Tempus, 2003.
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Details
- Description
- 256 p. : ill., maps, ports.; 25 cm.
- Summary
- "We use the word 'Celtic' fast and loose -- it evokes something mythical and romantic about our past -- but what exactly does it mean? Furthermore, why do people believe that there were Celts in Britain and what relationship do they have to the ancient Celts? This fascinating book focuses particularly on how the Celts were re-invented in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and how the legacy of mistaken interpretations still affects the way we understand the ancient sources and archaeological evidence. Book jacket."--Jacket.
- Series Statement
- Revealing history
- Uniform Title
- Revealing history
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-250) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Classical sources -- The peopling of the West -- Peoples and languages -- Race and time -- Art and archaeology -- Locating the Celts --The nature of the archaeological sources -- The archaeology of the Celts -- The Celts and politics -- Present controversies -- Implications.
- ISBN
- 0752429132 (pbk.) :
- OCLC
- 56526963
- SCSB-10604909
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library