Category Archives: Essays

The Iron Age in Northern Britain: Celts and Romans, Natives and Invaders

Author: D.W. Harding Publisher: Routledge Copyright: 2004 Pages: 352 Synopsis: The Iron Age in Northern Britain examines the impact of the Roman expansion northwards, and the native response to the Roman occupation on both sides of the frontiers. It traces the emergence of historically-recorded communities in the post-Roman period and looks at the clash of …

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Celts and the Classical World by David Rankin

Author: David Rankin Publisher: Routledge (an imprint of Taylor & Francis Group) Publishing History: First published in 1987 by Croom Helm Ltd, first published in paperback in 1996 by Routledge, the edition I am using for this review was published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2003. ISBN: 0-203-75022-5 (Adobe eReader Format) Synopsis: To observe …

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New Essay Up At Celtic Scholar’s World

I’ve just updated my website with a new essay on good and bad sources of information for research.  Please see my website at : Advice – A Short Discussion Of Sources

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A New Essay up at Celtic Scholar’s World

I have just added a new essay at my site Celtic Scholar’s World.  It is entitled A Short Introduction to the Comparative Method, and it is a short essay that is tries to define it.  This will be the first in a series (I hope).

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Facing The Ocean: The Atlantic and Its Peoples by Barry Cunliffe

Basic Book Information Title: Facing the Ocean: The Atlantic and Its Peoples 8000 BC-AD 1500 Binding: Hardcover Publishing Date: June 28th 2001 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA Page Numbers: 608 pages ISBN Number: 0199240191 (ISBN13: 9780199240197) Synopsis: In this highly illustrated book Barry Cunliffe focuses on the western rim of Europe–the Atlantic facade–an area stretching …

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Origins of the Celts: Theory One

In a previous essay, “An Introduction to Theories of Origin and Definitions of the Celts” I talked about three different theories of the origins of the Celts and definitions of the word “Celt”.  I also chose the definition of “Celt” that I am going to stick too and that definition automatically excluded one of the …

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An Introduction to Theories of Origin and Definitions of the Celts.

I decided that after setting the stage with my other essays on the history of Europe in the Mesolithic and Neolithic Ages, it was time to talk about the Celts and to be precise about the question of Celtic origins and what constitutes a Celt. Through my research and reading I realized that even now …

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Looking into the Celtic Languages

**Most of the dates are approximations. As exact dates of splits in languages and when they first arrive cannot be obtained with the data we have.  We can only give dates to languages that are attested too. Studying the language of a culture you are interested in will also help you study their history and …

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Samhain Ritual 2010

As I usually do every year I went to the desert to be sort of alone to do my ritual and meditate (I say sort of because no one should go to the desert alone, I had my boyfriend with me but he was in a different tent during the whole time and basically kept …

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Ancient Europe: Encyclopedia of the Barbarian World

Synopsis: This detailed encyclopedia is the first to explore the many peoples of early European civilization. Viewed as “barbarian” through the lens of ancient Greece and Rome, these civilizations were responsible for such accomplishments as the rise of farming in the Neolithic era and the building of Stonehenge. Coverage extends from prehistoric origins through the …

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