Wilmington Memorial Library

The world of the Celts, Simon James

eng

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

illustrations

index present

non fiction

The world of the Celts

bibliography

29328814

Simon James

Examines the life and history of the Celts, their wars, gods, craftsmanship in metal, wood, and stone, life under Roman rule, and continuing traditions after 400 A.D

Who Were The Celts?: -- Celts in myth and reality -- Outline history of the Celts -- Discovering the Celts: Hallstatt and La Tene -- Timeline - Map of the Celtic World -- Earliest Celts: -- Hallstatt Culture: Hillforts and Barrows -- Hochdorf Chieftain -- Centres of power: the Heuneburg -- Upheaval and migration, 500-400 BC -- Celtic Lands: -- Gauls in Italy -- Alps, South Germany and Bohemia -- Danube Lands and the attack on Greece -- Galatians in Asia -- Spain and Portugal: the Celtiberians -- Gaul, 400-100 BC -- Iron Age Britain -- Early Ireland, 600-1 BC -- Patterns Of Life: -- Shape of society -- Celtic husbandry -- Farms and villages -- Hillforts, Brochs and major settlements -- People, population and disease -- Celtic men -- Celtic women -- Feasting and fighting: how society functioned -- Celts At War: -- Spectrum of violence -- Technology of war: weapons and Armour -- Chariots and Cavalry -- Celts on campaign -- War with the Greeks and Romans -- Battle of Telamon, 225 BC -- Gods And The Afterlife: -- Celtic Gods -- Druids, Priests and Seers -- Holy places and sacrifice -- Lindow Man: dead men do tell tales -- Testimony of the Grave -- Cemeteries of East Yorkshire -- Celtic cremation rites -- La Tene Art And Technology: -- Origins of La Tene art -- Celtic art styles -- Technologies of fire: metal, glass and pottery -- Crafts: working in wood -- What was La Tene art for? -- Celts And The Classical World: -- Changing world of Late Iron Age Gaul -- Roman conquest: Italy, Iberia and Galatia -- Julius Caesar and the conquest of Gaul -- Revolt of Vercingetorix -- Britain from Caesar to Hadrian -- Why not Scotland or Ireland? -- Romanization of Gaul and Britain -- Boudica's revolt -- Gauls in togas -- Romano-Celtic Religion in Britain and Gaul -- Countryside: continuity, change and conflict -- Civil War and crisis in the empire -- Golden Age of Roman Britain -- Fall of Roman Gaul and Britain -- Celts Of Ireland: -- Ireland in the Roman Iron Age, AD 1-400 --Forts, farms and royal residences -- Myths and legends of Ireland -- From St Patrick to the Vikings -- Celtic Renaissance: -- Welsh and the English -- King Arthur: fact and fiction -- Picts and the Scots -- Scholars and saints, missionaries and manuscripts -- To Modern Times: -- Celts in Medieval and Early Modern Europe -- To the ends of the Earth: the new migrations -- Celts today -- Glossary -- Gazetteer -- Further reading -- Acknowledgments -- Index

Celts