Blood and Mistletoe
Blood and Mistletoe Crushed by the Romans in the first century A.D., the ancient Druids of Britain left almost no reliable evidence behind. Hutton's captivating book is the first to encompass two…
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Blood and Mistletoe
Crushed by the Romans in the first century A.D., the ancient Druids of Britain left almost no reliable evidence behind. Hutton's captivating book is the first to encompass two thousand years of Druid history and to explore the evolution of English, Scottish, and Welsh attitudes toward the forever ambiguous figures of the ancient Celtic world.Druids have been remembered at different times as patriots, scientists, philosophers, or priests; sometimes portrayed as corrupt, bloodthirsty, or ignorant, they were also seen as fomenters of rebellion. Because of this, historian Ronald Hutton shows, succeeding British generations have been free to reimagine, reinterpret, and reinvent the Druids.
Hutton charts how the Druids have been written in and out of history, archaeology, and the public consciousness for some 500 years, with particular focus on the romantic period, when Druids
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