Nehalennia
Title | Nehalennia PDF eBook |
Author | Gunivortus Goos |
Publisher | BoD – Books on Demand |
Pages | 298 |
Release | 2024-07-02 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 3758375525 |
Gods, Temples, and Ritual Practices
Title | Gods, Temples, and Ritual Practices PDF eBook |
Author | Ton Derks |
Publisher | Amsterdam University Press |
Pages | 356 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9789053562543 |
Bevölkerungsgeschichte - Gallien - Siedlungsgeschichte - Tempel - Ritus - Religion - Götter.
The Barbarians Speak
Title | The Barbarians Speak PDF eBook |
Author | Peter S. Wells |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 347 |
Release | 2021-06-08 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1400843464 |
The Barbarians Speak re-creates the story of Europe's indigenous people who were nearly stricken from historical memory even as they adopted and transformed aspects of Roman culture. The Celts and Germans inhabiting temperate Europe before the arrival of the Romans left no written record of their lives and were often dismissed as "barbarians" by the Romans who conquered them. Accounts by Julius Caesar and a handful of other Roman and Greek writers would lead us to think that prior to contact with the Romans, European natives had much simpler political systems, smaller settlements, no evolving social identities, and that they practiced human sacrifice. A more accurate, sophisticated picture of the indigenous people emerges, however, from the archaeological remains of the Iron Age. Here Peter Wells brings together information that has belonged to the realm of specialists and enables the general reader to share in the excitement of rediscovering a "lost people." In so doing, he is the first to marshal material evidence in a broad-scale examination of the response by the Celts and Germans to the Roman presence in their lands. The recent discovery of large pre-Roman settlements throughout central and western Europe has only begun to show just how complex native European societies were before the conquest. Remnants of walls, bone fragments, pottery, jewelry, and coins tell much about such activities as farming, trade, and religious ritual in their communities; objects found at gravesites shed light on the richly varied lives of individuals. Wells explains that the presence--or absence--of Roman influence among these artifacts reveals a range of attitudes toward Rome at particular times, from enthusiastic acceptance among urban elites to creative resistance among rural inhabitants. In fascinating detail, Wells shows that these societies did grow more cosmopolitan under Roman occupation, but that the people were much more than passive beneficiaries; in many cases they helped determine the outcomes of Roman military and political initiatives. This book is at once a provocative, alternative reading of Roman history and a catalyst for overturning long-standing assumptions about nonliterate and indigenous societies.
Symbol and Image in Celtic Religious Art
Title | Symbol and Image in Celtic Religious Art PDF eBook |
Author | Miranda Green |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 298 |
Release | 2003-10-03 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1134893930 |
Radical new interpretation of Celts and their way of life
Heathen Garb and Gear: Ritual Dress, Tools, and Art for the Practice of Germanic Heathenry
Title | Heathen Garb and Gear: Ritual Dress, Tools, and Art for the Practice of Germanic Heathenry PDF eBook |
Author | Ben Waggoner |
Publisher | Lulu.com |
Pages | 586 |
Release | 2018-11-22 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1941136214 |
The Vikings, Anglo-Saxons, Germanic tribes, Goths, and other Germanic-speaking tribes are renowned today in myth, legend, and popular culture. But how did they live? What did they wear? How did they worship? What did they eat? And how did their traditional ways of life reflect their spiritual beliefs? Heathen Garb and Gear takes you on a tour of the world that our forebears knew. More importantly, it shows you how their ways of dressing and living-from weaving woolen cloth and cooking food, to making music and taking steam baths-are reflected in the myths and traditions that have come down to us. Anyone who's ever wanted to wear Viking clothing, or serve authentic Viking feasts, will find plenty of practical tips here. But even if you're not interested in re-enacting the old ways, you'll find much vital information and inspiration for the practice of Heathenry as a living religious tradition.
Religion: Empirical Studies
Title | Religion: Empirical Studies PDF eBook |
Author | Steven J. Sutcliffe |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 337 |
Release | 2017-03-02 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1351904817 |
Treating 'religion' as a fully social, cultural, historical and material field of practice, this book presents a series of debates and positions on the nature and purpose of the 'Study of Religions', or 'Religious Studies'. Offering an introductory guide to this influential, and politically relevant, academic field, the contributors illustrate the diversity and theoretical viability of qualitative empirical methodologies in the study of religions. The historical and cultural circumstances attending the emergence, defence, and future prospects of Religious Studies are documented, drawing on theoretical material and case studies prepared within the context of the British Association for the Study of Religions (BASR), and making frequent reference to wider European, North American, and other international debates and critiques.
Water and Roman Urbanism
Title | Water and Roman Urbanism PDF eBook |
Author | Adam Rogers |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 292 |
Release | 2013-04-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9004249753 |
Water and Roman Urbanism: Towns, Waterscapes, Land Transformation and Experience in Roman Britain offers a new perspective for investigating Roman settlement and how urban spaces were created and experienced by focusing on the relationship between settlement and water and the meanings attributed to these places. Rather than a descriptive approach to the urban fabric it emphasises social context and cultural meaning through interpretative frameworks of analysis. Central are the cultural and experiential implications of water forming part of towns, rather than economic and practical arguments, and the way in which these places were used and altered over time. The book emphasises a social approach and has considerable implications for our understanding of life in the Roman period as a whole.