Twenty Five Women Who Shaped The... Twenty-Five Women Who Shaped the Celtic World, (Hardcover)

<p><i>Twenty-Five Women Who Shaped the Celtic World</i> takes readers on a whirlwind journey through over two millennia of sources that provide insight to the lives and lore of remarkable women in the Celtic tradition.</p><p>From approximately 500 BCE, when the so-called 'Lady of Vix' was interred in her Hallstatt-era cart burial in what would become Central France, to the twelfth century when the Irish, Welsh, and Scots navigated the changes brought by Anglo-Norman colonization, women's stories trace the rise and fall of the Celtic-speaking world. The chapters provide a broad and varied examination of historically attested women as well as the mythological, literary, and legendary women of the medieval tradition. Finally, women of the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century 'Celtic Revival' movement demonstrate the continued significance of the ancient and medieval Celtic past into the modern era. </p><p>While the Celtic past is all too often ignored or fetishized, this book provides readers with a concise yet fully contextualized introduction, valuable to anyone seeking to better their understanding of women's history and Celtic history.</p>

• Twenty Five Women Who Shaped The... Twenty-Five Women Who Shaped the Celtic World, (Hardcover)
• Author: Routledge
• ISBN: 9781032256320
• Format: Hardcover
• Publication Date: 2026-11-26
• Page Count: 304