Animals in Celtic Life and Myth

Name: Animals in Celtic Life and Myth
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ISBN: 9780415185882

ISBN-10: 0415185882

ISBN-13: 9780415185882

Edition: 1998

Authors: Miranda Green

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Animals played a crucial role in many aspects of Celtic life. Such was their importance that an intimate relationship between humans and animals developed, in which the Celts believed many animals to have divine powers, as Green demonstrates.

Book details

List price: $51.95
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 4/20/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 6.22" wide x 9.25" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 1.254
Language: English

Miranda Aldhouse-Green is professor of archaeology at Cardiff University in Wales. She is the author of The World of the Druids and Dictionary of Celtic Myth and Legend.



Preface



The Natural World of the Celts



Food and Farming: Animals in the Celtic Economy



Prey and Predator: The Celtic Hunter



Animals at War



Sacrifice and Ritual



The Artist's Menagerie



Animals in the Earliest Celtic Stories



God and Beast



Changing Attitudes to the Animal World


Notes


Bibliography


Index