The Pagan Religions Of The Ancient British Isles

Download or read book The Pagan Religions of the Ancient British Isles written by Ronald Hutton and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 1993-12-08 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first survey of religious beliefs in the British Isles from the Old Stone Age to the coming of Christianity, one of the least familiar periods in Britain's history. Ronald Hutton draws upon a wealth of new data, much of it archaeological, that has transformed interpretation over the past decade. Giving more or less equal weight to all periods, from the Neolithic to the Middle Ages, he examines a fascinating range of evidence for Celtic and Romano-British paganism, from burial sites, cairns, megaliths and causeways, to carvings, figurines, jewellery, weapons, votive objects, literary texts and folklore.