Название: Atlas of the Celtic WorldАвтор: John Haywood and Barry Cunliffe
Издательство: Thames & Hudson
Год: 2001
Формат: PDF
Размер: 25 Мб
Язык: английский / English
These maps tell the millennia-long story of a people whose most obvious living descendants are the speakers of Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Breton, and Welsh. Language, Haywood explains, defines Celticness because, despite the many artifacts depicted beside the maps, the material record of the Celts is relatively scanty and the historical record not much more substantial. After discussing Celtic identity, which has burgeoned so that it has influenced the current devolution of Great Britain, Haywood presents the maps in two large sections and one small section. The big parts trace the "Continental Celts," who ranged through central and southern Europe, and the linguistically distinguishable "Atlantic Celts," who occupied Britain and Ireland. The continentals' section ends with Brittany's incorporation into France in 1532; the Atlantics', with the Highland clearances, 1763-1886. The short section illustrates the Celtic cultural renaissance in western Europe and the Celtic diaspora to the Americas, Australia, and New Zealand.