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CONTENTS

List of illustrations

VIII

List of contributors

XV

Preface

XXI

Miranda J. Green

PART I: CELTIC ORIGINS


Introduction: who were the Celts? Miranda J. Green

The Early Celts: the evidence of language D. Ellis Evans

The Celts through classical eyes David Rankin


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PART II: WARRIORS AND WARFARE


The army, weapons and fighting J. N.G. and W. E Ritchie Fortifications and defence Ian Ralston


37

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PART III: SOCIETY AND SOCIAL LIFE

6  Power, politics and status Timothy Champion

7  Appearance, life and leisure Glenys Lloyd-Morgan

8  Celts and Romans: towards a Romano-Celtic society Barry C. Burnham

PART IV: SETTLEMENT AND ENVIRONMENT

9  People and nature in the Celtic world Martin Bell


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10  The first towns John Collis

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11  Rural life and farming Peter]. Reynolds

PART V: THE ECONOMY


12  Resources and industry Peter S. Wells

13  Trade and exchange Peter S. Wells

14  Coinage

Daphne Nash Briggs

15  Celtic seafaring and transport Sean Me Grail

PART VE TECHNOLOGY AND CRAFTSMANSHIP

16 The technology of metalwork: bronze and gold

285

Peter Northover

17 Ironworking in the Celtic world

310

W. H. Manning

18 Wood and the wheelwright

321

Stuart Piggott

19 The art of the potter

328

Alex Gibson

PART VII: THE ART OF THE CELTS

345

376

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20  The nature and function of Celtic art Ruth and Vincent Megaw

21  The social implications of Celtic art: 600 BC to AD 600 Martyn Jope

22  Jewellery and adornment Sara Champion

PART VIII: PAGAN CELTIC RELIGION

23 Ritual and the druids

423

Anne Ross

24 Sanctuaries and sacred places

445

Jane Webster

25 The gods and the supernatural

465

Miranda J. Green

16 Burial and the Otherworld

489

Gerald A. Wait

PART IX; THE CELTS IN EUROPE

27 The Celts In Italy

515

Otto-Herman Frey

28 The Celts in Spain

533

Majolie Lenerz-de Wilde

29 The Celts in Erance

552

Olivier Biichsenschiitz

30 Celts of eastern Europe

581

Elizabeth Jerem

31 Celts and Germans in the Rhineland

603

Colin Wells

PART X: ON THE EDGE OE THE WESTERN WORLD

32  The Celtic Britons under Rome 623

Graham Webster

33  Ireland: a world without the Romans 636

Barry Raftery

34  The early Celts in Scotland 654

Euan W MacKie

35  The early Celts in Wales 671

Jeffrey L. Davies

PART XI: CELTIC BRITAIN POST ad 400

36  Language and society among the Insular Celts 400-1000 703

Thomas Charles-Edwards

37  Early Christianity and its monuments 737

Mark Redknap

38  Mythology and the oral tradition; Ireland 779

Proinsias Mac Cana

39  Mythology and the oral tradition: Wales 785

Sioned Davies

PART XII: THE SURVIVAL OE THE CELTS

40  Language and identity in modern Wales 795

Wynne Lloyd

41  The Celtic languages today 804

Glanville Price

Index  815



 

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