Atlantic Europe in the Metal Ages — questions of shared language
Edited by John T. Koch and Barry Cunliffe
Price: $59.95
ISBN: 9798888571538
Pub Date: 2024-05-15
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Oxbow Books
552 Pages
The third volume in the influential Celtic from the West series questions the accepted status quo on the development and spread of Celtic languages across late Iron Age Europe
This book is a study of the rich and fascinating traditions found early Irish literature concerning smiths and the fashioning of metal. The smith had a special status within the traditional societies of early Ireland and elsewhere in the Celtic-speaking world.
Rethinking the Bronze Age and the Arrival of Indo-European in Atlantic Europe
Edited by John T. Koch and Barry Cunliffe
Price: $44.95
ISBN: 9781785706523
Pub Date: 2017-05-18
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Oxbow Books
237 Pages
Europe’s Atlantic façade has long been treated as marginal to the formation of the European Bronze Age and the puzzle of the origin and early spread of the Indo-European languages. Until recently the idea that Atlantic Europe was a wholly pre-Indo-European world throughout the Bronze Age remained plausible..
This multi-authored book brings together new work, from a wide range of disciplinary vantages, on pre-Christian religion in the Celtic-speaking provinces of the Roman Empire. The chapters are the work of international experts in the fields of classics, ancient history, archaeology, and Celtic studies.
This pioneering work shows how Celtic cultures understood the place of human beings in their natural environment in ways fundamentally different from our own.
A major new collection by leading contemporary English-language Welsh poets and literary scholars, including original poems by Gillian Clarke, Sheenagh Pugh, Tony Conran, Philip Gross, and Tony Curtis, essays by Wynn Thomas, Tony Brown, Jane Aaron, and Gavin Edwards, art history by Peter Lord.
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