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Celts: History and Treasures of an Ancient Civilization (Paperback)
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A fascinating, concise and comprehensive description of the rise,
glory and fall of the Celtic civilization. Since ancient times, the
Celts have been more feared than welcomed. Known to be fierce,
indomitable warriors, mercenaries and conquerors, they were in the
eyes of the Mediterranean world barbarians par excellence, the
enemies of civilization. Sharing a common language and social
structure (which supported their warrior ideology), the various
Celtic populations of fighting men, farmers, and artisans who never
knew political unity over the centuries came to occupy the whole of
continental and insular Europe, to the fringes of Asia Minor. The
Celts did not build megalithic monuments and left only a few large
sculptures comparable with those of the Greek and Etruscan-Italian
world. Their art was applied to small objects and the figurative
repertoire "not-classical/anticlassical" gave shape to a fantastic,
fleeting vision of a very specific nature, reflecting their own
spiritual and magico-religious world. Despite the territorial
conquests of Rome and other populations, the identity, language,
cults and the beliefs of the Celts survived until the dawn of the
Middle Ages. Thanks to the transmission of their oral literature,
compiled and transcribed by Irish monks, we can intensively explore
both the spiritual world and the culture of the Celtic peoples, who
were among the most important formative forces in the history of
European continent. AUTHOR: Daniele Vitali graduated in Etruscology
at the University of Bologna. Since 1998 he has been a professor of
Pre- and Protohistory in the Conservation of Cultural Heritage at
the University of Bologna. He is member of UMR 8546 CNRS (Ecole
Normale Superieure, Paris), a corresponding member of the Institute
of Etruscan and Italic Studies and of the Institute of Italian Pre-
and Protohistory. Daniele Vitali has held classes and seminars on
Celtic-Italian archaeology in major European universities and has
directed various international congresses. He continues to direct
archaeological excavations at Celtic sites. He directs the
University of Bologna's team at the Centre Archeologique Europeen
du Mont Beuvray (since 1989), which participates in excavations in
Bibracte, and since 2005 he has directed the University of
Bologna's team at the Hungarian-French-Italian excavation site on
the Great Hungarian Plain. Colour illustrations
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