- Paperback: 320 pages
- Publisher: Gibson Square Books Ltd (26 Aug 2010)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1906142424
- ISBN-13: 978-1906142421
- Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 13 x 2.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 499,057 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'Witty, entertaining.' Ian Mortimer, Guardian 'Agreeably eye-watering detail.' Peter Jones, Evening Standard Best Books 'A wonderfully written book.' Tom Holland, Sunday Telegraph 'Racy.' Daily Mail 'Extraordinarily ambitious.' Byron Rogers, Spectator 'Diverting... refreshingly contentious.' David Musgrove, BBC History Magazine 'So good a book... up-to-date scholarship and panache.' Professor Patrick Sims-Williams, Times Literary Supplement 'Fascinating, well-paced.' Dr Giles Gasper, Church Times 'Lively, well-written.' Fortean Times --1
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From the Iron Age to the High Middle Ages, the ancient Celts were an engine of change for the whole of Europe. Here, Simon Young travels back in time to the moments when this ancient people defined indelibly the ancient, medieval and modern world. On this entertaining voyage the reader will visit the hills of ancient Rome in the company of violent mohicaned warbands, pass into Dark-Age Christendom and witness Celtic monks peculiar customs of curses and talking to animals. And move on to later medieval France, Germany and England where the ruthless vagabond-hero Arthur was to cast his spell over Britain s and Europe s aristocracy. While modern Celtic culture is an eighteenth-century invention, Simon Young shows that the real Celts turned upside down an area from the New World to Turkey and beyond. Leaving their mark on history, they were no less important than the Romans, Greeks and Etruscans.
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