The world of the Celts /
Examines the life and history of the Celts, their wars, gods, craftsmanship in metal, wood, and stone, life under Roman rule, and continuing traditions after 400 A.D.
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London ; New York, N.Y. :
Thames and Hudson,
1998, c1993.
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Table of Contents:
- Who Were The Celts?:
- Celts in myth and reality
- Outline history of the Celts
- Discovering the Celts: Hallstatt and La Tene
- Timeline - Map of the Celtic World
- Earliest Celts:
- Hallstatt Culture: Hillforts and Barrows
- Hochdorf Chieftain
- Centres of power: the Heuneburg
- Upheaval and migration, 500-400 BC
- Celtic Lands:
- Gauls in Italy
- Alps, South Germany and Bohemia
- Danube Lands and the attack on Greece
- Galatians in Asia
- Spain and Portugal: the Celtiberians
- Gaul, 400-100 BC
- Iron Age Britain
- Early Ireland, 600-1 BC
- Patterns Of Life:
- Shape of society
- Celtic husbandry
- Farms and villages
- Hillforts, Brochs and major settlements
- People, population and disease
- Celtic men
- Celtic women
- Feasting and fighting: how society functioned
- Celts At War:
- Spectrum of violence
- Technology of war: weapons and Armour
- Chariots and Cavalry
- Celts on campaign
- War with the Greeks and Romans
- Battle of Telamon, 225 BC
- Gods And The Afterlife:
- Celtic Gods
- Druids, Priests and Seers
- Holy places and sacrifice
- Lindow Man: dead men do tell tales
- Testimony of the Grave
- Cemeteries of East Yorkshire
- Celtic cremation rites
- La Tene Art And Technology:
- Origins of La Tene art
- Celtic art styles
- Technologies of fire: metal, glass and pottery
- Crafts: working in wood
- What was La Tene art for?
- Celts And The Classical World:
- Changing world of Late Iron Age Gaul
- Roman conquest: Italy, Iberia and Galatia
- Julius Caesar and the conquest of Gaul
- Revolt of Vercingetorix
- Britain from Caesar to Hadrian
- Why not Scotland or Ireland?
- Romanization of Gaul and Britain
- Boudica's revolt
- Gauls in togas
- Romano-Celtic Religion in Britain and Gaul
- Countryside: continuity, change and conflict
- Civil War and crisis in the empire
- Golden Age of Roman Britain
- Fall of Roman Gaul and Britain
- Celts Of Ireland:
- Ireland in the Roman Iron Age, AD 1-400
- Forts, farms and royal residences
- Myths and legends of Ireland
- From St Patrick to the Vikings
- Celtic Renaissance:
- Welsh and the English
- King Arthur: fact and fiction
- Picts and the Scots
- Scholars and saints, missionaries and manuscripts
- To Modern Times:
- Celts in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
- To the ends of the Earth: the new migrations
- Celts today
- Glossary
- Gazetteer
- Further reading
- Acknowledgments
- Index.