The Celtic World (Routledge Worlds)

Chapter Five - In this treatment, the author has attempted to cast doubt on the universality with which iron age fortification ...

'-J '-J Figure 5.10 Aerial photo of La Chaussee Tirancourt, Somme, France, highlighting defences. (Copyright: Roger Agache.) ...

Chapter Five - Recent work at one of the major forts on the Somme valley, France, has added a novel dimension to consideration ...

Fortifications and Defence - --(1986) '''Stoning and firing" at hillfort entrances in southern Britain', World Archaeology 18: ...

Chapter Five - Guilbert, G. (ed.) (1981) Hilt-fort Studies: essays for A.H.A. Hogg, Leicester: Leicester University Press. Har ...

Fortifications and Defence - Raftery, B. (1991) 'Dun Aengus, Inishmore, Aran, County Galway, Ireland', in S. Moscati et al. (e ...

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PART III SOCIETY AND SOCIAL LIFE .•. - ...

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CHAPTER SIX POWER, POLITICS AND STATUS --.•. -- Timothy Champion I n modern society it is normal to distinguish different areas ...

Chapter Six - a question about our own understanding of the written record, and also about the author's understanding and trea ...

Power, Politics and Status - ranking is in a state of flux; many of the legal tracts date originally to the seventh and eighth ...

Chapter Six - centres of political power and of developing social hierarchies. Some of the most massively fortified sites in p ...

Power, Politics and Status - In Early Christian Ireland, the fundamental unit of social organization was the tuath (Kelly 1988 ...

Chapter Six - familiar to modern readers. It would be tempting to think that these categories were unproblematic, but we do no ...

Power, Politics and Status - been regarded as chattels without legal rights; they were prisoners of war, those unable to pay t ...

Chapter Six - THE SOURCES OF SOCIAL POWER Celtic society was based on status and honour, and status was based partly on birth ...

Power, Politics and Status - wealth, and the two main sources of wealth were cattle and treasure. The early Irish laws preserv ...

Chapter Six - In other circumstances, treaties and alliances could provide an alternative source of political support. Their m ...

CHAPTER SEVEN APPEARANCE, LIFE AND LEISURE --.•. -- Glenys Lloyd-Morgan D espite our growing knowledge of the ancient world, thr ...