Pagan Celtic Britain
by Anne Ross ROSS
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Author: Anne Ross ROSSEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2005-08-30
ISBN: 0897334353
Number of pages: 540
Publisher: Academy Chicago Publishers
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Book Review: Dated, but a classic for good reason
Summary: 5 Stars
This book is something of a classic, being one of the only comprehensive attempts at looking at the archaeology of Celtic mythology in Britain. The book is quite comprehensive, well-structured, and well organized, and it provides a tremendous amount of information on Celtic pagan religion both in pre-Roman and Roman times. The book does a great job of attempting to tie together the iconography and disparate literary traditions to present a picture of Celtic pagan religion supported by evidence.
The book is dated in a number of key areas, including reliance on outdated archaeological and mythological theory. In particular, the mythological and iconographic analysis relies too much (IMO) on typological analysis and not enough on looking at the internal structure of the myths themselves. As a result I would not recommend this work to beginners, but rather to advanced students interested in additional information which could be used to fill in gaps.
On the whole, this book is irreplaceable yet it is not something that should be read as an authoritative textbook. The author clearly intended this to be read as a set of iconographic and mythological studies rather than as an authoritative summary of the topic. In this regard it's very, very good, but not something to simply hand an inspiring student who has not yet learned enough to address the work critically. It's still a book I would highly recommend to folks who have read other materials first.
Books to read first:
The Druids (Ancient Peoples and Places Series)
The Ancient Celts
Summary of Pagan Celtic Britain
Although some aspects of pre-Roman and pre-Christian beliefs remain shrouded in mystery, the author of this volume contends that neither the Roman invasion of Britain nor the coming of Christianity eliminated pagan religious practice. This is a piece of historical and archaeological reconstruction.For a people that at one time dominated much of Europe, very little is known of the Celts and their religion, yet many flimsy theories and fanciful relationships have grown up over the years based on the scant evidence available. In a scholarly and systematic study, Anne Ross draws on all of the available evidence--archaeological sites in Europe and the British Isles, ancient Greek and Roman writers and early British vernacular literature--to separate the grain of what we know from the chaff of accreted misinformation and loose interpretation.
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