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BIRKHAN Helmut
Kelten - Celts

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Bilder ihrer Kultur - Images of Their Culture
Year of publication: 1999
Publisher: VÖAW
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453 S., 788 Abb., 29,7 x 24 cm, Leinen mit Schutzumschlag

ISBN10: 3-7001-2814-2
ISBN13: 978-3-7001-2814-4

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€ 125,22

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No other people of European antiquity has exercised such a fascination into the present as the Celts. CELTS is a unique database in print, with 788 photos, sketches, reconstructions and illustrations. On 453 pages, Helmut Birkhan, a renowned Celtic specialist and Professor at the University of Vienna, presents the most important documents and testimony to the history of this people from the most important museums and collections in Europe, supplementing them by previously largely unknown pictorial documents and drawings concerning the way of life and daily culture of the Celts. The result is a new kind of book that fascinates through its representative selection of illustration, its precise recording and its detailed list of sources, museums and finding places.rnThe illustrated volume represents a first attempt at a comprehensive documentation of Celtic culture: from its earliest appearance in the Hallstatt period up to the time of christianisation, between Anatolia and Ireland, between Slovakia and Portugal, from the much-admired La Tène art to the simple utility objects of pre-history, from everyday life to the Hallstatt era festival, from the royal insignia to the slaves chain, from the Celtic image of Caesar to Tolkien´s The Lord of the Rings, from the Glozel script, mostly suspected of being a forgery, to the ancient alphabetic writing of the ogham stones and the mysterious symbol of script of the enigmatic Picts, from Gallo-Roman sanctuaries to primitive head-hunting and the archaic skull cults in Gallia, Britannia and Ireland. Never before has such a comprehensive presentation of Celtic culture been provided through highly informative illustrations.rnThe author has been assisted by well over 160 academics and artists between Ireland and Turkey in the search for the valuable pictorial material.rnTogether with the standard work Kelten. Versuch einer Gesamtdarstellung ihrer Kultur (Celts. A general survey of their culture) the CELTS illustrated lexicon represents a indispensable companion for research, teaching and for anyone interested in the Celts.rn

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