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Rethinking the Ancient Druids Miranda Aldhouse-Green

Rethinking the Ancient Druids By Miranda Aldhouse-Green

Rethinking the Ancient Druids by Miranda Aldhouse-Green


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This book presents a new exploration of an ancient European Druids, people who could foretell the will of the gods and who left revealing archaeological evidence of their rites and beliefs.

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Rethinking the Ancient Druids: An Archaeological Perspective by Miranda Aldhouse-Green

Ancient Classical authors have painted the Druids in a bad light, defining them as a barbaric priesthood, who 2,000 years ago perpetrated savage and blood rites in ancient Britain and Gaul in the name of their gods. Archaeology tells a different and more complicated story of this enigmatic priesthood, a theocracy with immense political and sacred power. This book explores the tangible 'footprint' the Druids have left behind: in sacred spaces, art, ritual equipment, images of the gods, strange burial rites and human sacrifice. Their material culture indicates how close was the relationship between Druids and the spirit-world, which evidence suggests they accessed through drug-induced trance.

About Miranda Aldhouse-Green

Miranda Aldhouse-Green is Emeritus Professor of Archaeology at Cardiff University; author of several books and papers on ancient European religion, and holder of two Book of the Year awards from national US archaeological societies.

Table of Contents

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Preface PROLOGUE: The untouched Cave CH. 1: Time and Space: contextualizing Druids in the ancient world CH. 2: Barbarians and Wise Men: rethinking Classical texts CH. 3: Spiritual Spaces: rites and beliefs in Iron Age Britain and Gaul CH. 4: Images and Symbols: sacred art and the Druids CH. 5: Welsh Connections: spotlight on Druidic Wales CH. 6: A Holy War: Boudica and the Druids against Rome CH. 7: Reading Runes and Telling Spoons: divining the divine CH. 8: Druids and Deities: changing spirits in Roman Gaul and Britain CH. 9: Ideas of Afterlife: death, burial and reincarnation EPILOGUE: The Untouched Cave Revisited BIBLIOGRAPHY

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NPB9781786837974
9781786837974
1786837978
Rethinking the Ancient Druids: An Archaeological Perspective by Miranda Aldhouse-Green
New
Paperback
University of Wales Press
2021-09-15
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