A dictionary of Irish mythology

Peter Berresford Ellis

Reference

Constable

A Guide To Early Celtic Remains In Britain

History

Europe

Constable Co Ltd

The Celtic Church, unlike its Roman counterpart, was never an identifiable organization with a central leadership. Nevertheless, for a period of 150 years, during the early Christian era, the million Celts of the British Isles were cut off from strict Roman influence. The Celts clung to old computations and freely mixed many pre-Christian traditions and social concepts into their Christianity and thus developed as a disctinct entity. Even as late as the 14th century AD in Scotland there were still bodies of Celtic monks (Culdees) clinging to the old ways. This study presents a general history of the Celtic Church in Britain and Ireland, concentrating on the Dark Ages which for Celtic people was a golden age of learning, of artistic achievement and development - achievements which Celtic missionaries took to other lands. Their influence has been profound and lasting.

Celtic Inheritance

Literature & Fiction

World Literature

RH Canada UK Dist

The Celts were one of the great founding civilizations of Europe and the first North European people to emerge into recorded history, producing a vibrant labyrinth of mythological tales and sagas that have influenced the literary traditions of Europe and the world. The first A-Z reference of its kind, Dictionary of Celtic Mythology is fascinating and accessible guide to the gods and goddesses, the heroes and heroines, the magical weapons, fabulous beasts, and otherworld entities that populate the myths of this rich European culture. Like A Dictionary of Irish Mythology before it, this is a who's who and what's what of the epic Celtic sagas and tales. Predated only by Greek and Latin by virtue of the fact that the Celtic languages were not written until the early Christian era, Celtic mythology is a development from a far earlier oral tradition containing voices from the dawn of European civilization. The peoples of these Celtic cultures survive today on the western seaboard of Europe--the Irish, Manx, and Scots, who make up the Goidelic- (or Gaelic) speaking branch of Celts, and the Welsh, Cornish, and Brentons, who represent the Brythonic-speaking branch. And it is in these languages that their vibrant and fascinating mythology has been recorded and appreciated throughout the world. In his introduction, Ellis discusses the roles of these six cultures, the evolution (or demise) of the languages, and the relationship between the legends, especially the Irish and Welsh, the two major Celtic cultures. From Celtic legends have come not only the stories of Cuchulainn and Fionn MacCumhail, of Deidre of the Sorrows and the capricious Grainne, but the stories of the now world-famous Arthur, and the romantic tragedy of Tristan and Iseult. An easy-to-read handbook, The Dictionary of Celtic Mythology presents a fascinating window to centuries of rich oral and written tradtion from the mists of Europe's origins.

Dictionary of Celtic Mythology (Guides)

London: Constable

Peter Berresford Ellis charts the struggle for the supremacy of Britain between the invading ancestors of the English and the British Celts.

Celt and Saxon: The struggle for Britain, AD 410-937

Dictionary of Celtic Mythology (Celtic Interest)

A title first published in 1995, which examines the status of women in ancient Celtic society, looking at powerful fgures such as Boadicea and her struggle with the Romans. Ellis examines the rights of women in Celtic law, their position in mythology and the view that ultimately Christianity degenerated their role.

Celtic Women: Women in Celtic Society & Literature

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Trans-Atlantic Pubns

<p>This book of visual realisations of individual masterpieces of Celtic illuminated art is the first in a new series.</p>

The Book of Deer (Library of Celtic illuminated manuscripts)

Roy Elsworth

<p>Very few of the Gaelic aristocracy survive today, most being eradicated during the Tudor Wars of Conquest under Henry VIII, who asked them to exchange their titles for English earldoms. Only nineteen families maintain their ancient titles, still recognised by the modern Irish state. Peter Berresford Ellis tells the story of their history, their struggle for survival and their present-day lives. A great book by one of the foremost experts on the Celts.</p>

Erin's Blood Royal: the Noble Gaelic Dynasties of Ireland

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

Hell or Connaught!: The Cromwellian Colonization of Ireland, 1652-1660

St.Martin's Press

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