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Informationen zum Autor Robin Melrose is a retired senior lecturer in English and linguistics at England's University of Portsmouth. He lives on the Isle of Wight in southern England. Klappentext The Druids and the Arthurian legends are all most of us know about early Britain, from the Neolithic to the Iron Age (4500 BC-AD 43). Drawing on archaeological discoveries and medieval Welsh texts like the Mabinogion, this book explores the religious beliefs of the ancient Britons before the coming of Christianity, beginning with the megaliths--structures like Stonehenge--and the role they played in prehistoric astronomy. Topics include the mysterious Beaker people of the Early Bronze Age, Iron Age evidence of the Druids, the Roman period and the Dark Ages. The author discusses the myths of King Arthur and what they tell us about paganism, as well as what early churches and monasteries reveal about the enigmatic Druids. Inhaltsverzeichnis Table of ContentsPreface: Routes to the PastIntroduction: Celts, Druids and the Age of Arthur1: The Age of Megaliths (1): Stone Monuments and Neolithic Astronomy2: The Age of Megaliths (2): Rich Burials and More Astronomy in the Early Bronze Age3: The Age of Depositions (1): Water, Fire and Earth in the Late Bronze Age4: The Age of Depositions (2): The Sky God and Iron Age Hillforts5: The Age of Depositions (3): Chariot Burials, Lunar Eclipses and Wooden Buckets in the Later Iron Age6: The Romans in Britain: Roman Gods and British Gods, Roman Burials and Decapitated Burials7: The Beginnings of the Age of Arthur: Arthur the Bear-Man8: Arthur in the Underworld9: Arthur the Witch-Slayer, Warrior and King10: Arthur and the Early Medieval World: Holy Islands and the Arthurian Cycle in Cornwall11: Druids and the Early Medieval World: the Bear-Druid of Welsh MythologyChapter NotesBibliographyIndex
