The Celts The Celts

The Celts

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Publisher Description

The Celtic period was one of tremendous expansion, the last phase of European material and intellectual development before the Mediterranean world spread northwards over the Continent and linked it to modern times. Nora Chadwick's classic survey traces the rise and spread of the Celts, from their arrival in the British Isles in about the eighth century BC to the gradual transformation of their culture, initially under the Romans and later the Saxons.

GENRE
History
RELEASED
1997
31 July
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
320
Pages
PUBLISHER
Penguin Books Ltd
SIZE
10.4
MB

Customer Reviews

Gcamm1231 ,

Awesome!

This is an awesome book! I have never read about the Celts before and I find them fascinating! I have read books on prehistory, pagan Britain and the Romans, however, I believe the Celts are the missing piece of the puzzle, as the Celts fill in the gaps from prehistory to history especially in temperate Europe (i.e.: non-Mediterranean). Beginning with the Hallstatt culture from the Late Bronze Age from the 12th to 8th centuries BC, then onto the La Tène culture which flourished during the late Iron Age (from about 450 BCE to the Roman conquest in the 1st century BCE), we then hit the historic period of Celtic culture, when they Christianise and become literate themselves. Although Celtic culture was spread throughout much of temperate Europe, through the Roman conquest (particularly of Gaul) the Celts were limited to the British Isles and Brittany, also known as insular Celts and most of the book focuses of the prehistory, history, art, architecture and literature (aka culture) of the Celts in Gaul, Wales, Ireland, Scotland, Cornwall and Brittany. The Celts have so much beautiful art and later in the historic period beautiful literature, stories and myths particularly in Ireland. To be honest I didn’t really know that the Celts were an extant living people, living today with their own languages in Ireland, Wales, Scotland, Cornwall and Brittany. I kind of thought the Celts were extinct. An excellent and enthralling book! I highly recommend it!

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