Celtic Culture : A Historical Encyclopedia (Five Volume Set) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1851094407 ISBN 13: 9781851094400

Publisher: ABC-CLIO, 2005

Synopsis

This encyclopedia covers the entirety of the Celtic world, both through time and across geography. Although emphasizing the areas where Celtic languages and traditions survive into the present, the work does not slight the reaches of the Celtic empire, which was the largest language and cultural group on earth prior to the rise of Rome. In some 1,500 articles, many representing original research by the finest Celtic scholars, the work covers the Celts from prehistory to the present, giving comprehensive treatment to all topics from myth to music, religion to rulers, literature to language, government to games, and all topics in between.

Entry into the rich world of Celtic scholarship has been difficult: The available information must be teased out of dense scholarly tomes or lightweight books emphasizing such popular elements of Celtic tradition as wee people, Druids, and blue-painted pagans. While this work treats those topics within its broad scope, the information is presented as scholarship, without the pop patina.

About this title

About the Author

John T. Koch, PhD, is reader at the University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies in Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, Wales.

Edition details

• Publisher: ABC-CLIO
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1851094407
• ISBN 13: 9781851094400
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 2200
• Editor: Koch John T.