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The art of roman britain.
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ISBN: 0415151368 Year: 1995 Publisher: London Batsford

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With the help of over 100 illustrations, many of them little known, Martin Henig shows that the art produced in Britannia--particularly in the golden age of Late Antiquity--rivals that of other provinces and deserves comparison with the art of metropolitan Rome. The originality and breadth of Henig's study is shown by its systematic coverage, embracing both the major arts--stone and bronze statuary, wall-painting and mosaics--and such applied arts as jewelery-making, silversmithing, furniture design, figure pottery, figurines and appliques. The author explains how the various workshops were organized, the part played by patronage and the changes that occurred in the fourth century.


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Imagining the Celtic past in modern fantasy
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ISBN: 9781350349995 9781350350038 Year: 2024 Publisher: London : Bloomsbury Academic,

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"Focusing on representations of Celtic motifs and traditions in post-1980s adult fantasy literature, this book illuminates how the historical, the mythological and the folkloric have served as inspiration for the fantastic in modern and popular culture of the western world. Bringing together both highly-acclaimed works with those that have received less critical attention, including French and Gaelic fantasy literature, Imagining the Celtic Past in Modern Fantasy explores such texts as Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, Alan Garner's Weirdstone trilogy, the Irish fantasies of Jodi McIsaac, David Gemmell's Rigante novels, Patricia Kennealy-Morrison Keltiad books, as well as An Sgoil Dhubh by Iain F. MacLeòid and the Vertigen and Frontier series by Léa Silhol. Lively and covering new ground, the collection examines topics such as fairy magic, Celtic-inspired worldbuilding, heroic patterns, classical ethnography and genre tropes alongside analyses of the Celtic Tarot in speculative fiction and Celtic appropriation in fan culture. Introducing a nuanced understanding of the Celtic past, as it has been informed by recent debates in Celtic studies, this wide-ranging and provocative book shows how modern fantasy is indebted to medieval Celtic-language texts, folkloric traditions, as well as classical sources"--


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Diachrone Studien zur Kontaktzone zwischen Kelten und Germanen.
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ISBN: 3700131240 9783700131243 Year: 2002 Volume: 699 Publisher: Wien Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften


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Classical art forms and Celtic mutations : figural art in Roman Britain
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ISBN: 081555057X Year: 1980 Publisher: Park Ridge Noyes Press

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Columbanus in his own words
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ISBN: 0901810681 Year: 1974 Publisher: Dublin Veritas

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The sublime savage: a study of James Macpherson and the poems of Ossian
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ISBN: 0852246099 0852245696 Year: 1988 Publisher: Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press

Cracker culture
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ISBN: 0585119724 9780585119724 9780817384524 0817384529 9780817303280 0817303286 9780817304584 0817304584 0817303286 0817304584 Year: 1988 Publisher: University, Ala. University of Alabama Press

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Cracker Culture is a provocative study of social life in the Old South that probes the origin of cultural differences between the South and the North throughout American history. Among Scotch-Irish settlers the term "Cracker" initially designated a person who boasted, but in American usage the word has come to designate poor whites. McWhiney uses the term to define culture rather than to signify an economic condition. Although all poor whites were Crackers, not all Crackers were poor whites; both, however, were Southerners. The author insists that Southerners and North

Celtic mythological influences on American theatre, 1750-1875
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ISBN: 0819192252 Year: 1994 Publisher: Lanham, Md. New York London University Press of America

English romanticism and the Celtic world
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ISBN: 052181085X 0521136660 1107132444 0511120141 0511064314 0511057989 0511326114 0511484135 1280161027 1139147749 0511072775 9780511064319 9780511072772 9780511057984 9780511120145 9780521810852 9780511484131 9781280161025 Year: 2003 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University press

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English Romanticism and the Celtic World explores the way in which British Romantic writers responded to the national and cultural identities of the 'four nations' England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. The essays collected here, by specialists in the field, interrogate the cultural centres as well as the peripheries of Romanticism, and the interactions between these. They underline 'Celticism' as an emergent strand of cultural ethnicity during the eighteenth century, examining the constructions of Celticness and Britishness in the Romantic period, including the ways in which the 'Celtic' countries viewed themselves in the light of Romanticism. Other topics include the development of Welsh antiquarianism, the Ossian controversy, Irish nationalism, Celtic landscapes, Romantic form and Orientalism. The collection covers writing by Blake, Wordsworth, Scott, Byron and Shelley, and will be of interest to scholars of Romanticism and Celtic studies.

The Celts : a history
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ISBN: 1903464218 0851159230 Year: 2003 Publisher: Woodbridge (Suffolk) : Boydell & Brewer,

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