Category Archives: Celtic Culture
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 …
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 …
Defining Culture and Celtic Culture
Introduction Doing the research for this essay, it was hard not to admit defeat. There was no one culture that could be pointed out as distinctly Celtic today or for that matter in ancient times. The aim of this short essay is to define culture and Celtic culture from my point of view. Defining Culture …
