Druids : a very short introduction / Barry Cunliffe.
Who were the Druids? What do we know about them? Do they still exist today? The Druids first came into focus in Western Europe - Gaul, Britain, and Ireland - in the second century BC. They are a popular subject; they have been known and discussed for over 2,000 years and few figures flit so elusivel...
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Oxford ; New York :
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2010.
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Table of Contents:
- The Druids in time and space
- The European theatre
- The archaeology of religious practice at the time of the Druids
- Enter the Druids: the first contacts
- Altars steeped in human blood
- Twilight in the far west
- Renaissance and rediscovery
- Romanticism and the rise of nationalism
- Neodruids and the neopagans
- So, who were the Druids?