Tag Archives: History
The Celts
Author: Wolfgang Meid Publisher: Innsbruck Copyright: 2010 ISBN:9783851242287 Synopsis: “The Celts” – who were they? Did they really exist, or are they as some archaeologists seem to believe, a mere scientific construct, a fictitious entity? The basis of this misapprehension is the fact that it is not possible to diagnose Celticity by archaeological means alone. …
The Rune Primer A Down-to-Earth Guide to Runes
Author: Sweyn Plowright Publisher: Rune – Net Published: 2006 ISBN: 9781847282460 Synopsis: Historical facts about the runes in plain English. This book looks at what we really know about them and how we know it. There is also a discussion of the popular authors of esoteric runology, and a chapter exposing the myths and misconceptions …
Runes (Reading the Past)
Series: Reading the Past Author: R.I. Page Publisher:University of California Press and the British Museum Published: 2007 (Fifth edition, Originally published in 1987) Synopsis: In Orkney, Shetland and the Scottish Islands, in Ireland, the Isle of Man and above all in Scandinavia, travelers still come upon great memorial stones, inscribed with the curious angular alphabet …
The Celtic Gauls: Gods, Rites, and Sanctuaries
Author: Jean Louis Brunaux (Translated by Daphne Nash) Copyright: French 1987, English 1988 Publishers: French – Editions Errance, Paris. English – B.A. Seaby Ltd, Great Britain. Pages: Including index 154 ISBN 1 85264 009 X Synopsis: This fascinating account of the Celtic Gauls, their religion and rites of life and death, war and peace, brings …
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 …
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 …
Notes on History Part One
Prehistory: the period of time before written records. The occurrence of written materials varies generally from culture to culture. Some cultures came into the “historical times” in the Late Stone Age, while others came in the later Bronze Age or within the Iron Age. Historians increasingly do not restrict themselves to evidence from written records …
