Gods, Heroes, and Kings The Battle for Mythic Britain

Name: Gods, Heroes, and Kings The Battle for Mythic Britain
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ISBN: 9780195174038

ISBN-10: 0195174038

ISBN-13: 9780195174038

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Authors: Christopher R. Fee, David A. Leeming

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The islands of Britain have been a crossroads of gods, heroes, and kings-those of flesh as well as those of myth-for thousands of years. Successive waves of invasion brought distinctive legends, rites, and beliefs. The ancient Celts displaced earlier indigenous peoples, only to find themselves displaced in turn by the Romans, who then abandoned the islands to Germanic tribes, a people themselves nearly overcome in time by an influx of Scandinavians. With each wave of invaders came a battle for the mythic mind of the Isles as the newcomer's belief system met with the existing systems of gods, legends, and myths. In Gods, Heroes, and Kings, medievalist Christopher Fee and veteran myth…

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List price: $65.00
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/18/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 8.82" wide x 5.59" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English