Celts in Legend and Reality : Papers from the Sixth Australian Conference of Celtic Studies Paperback / softback

CONTENTS:Preface by Pamela O'NeillCelts in the Material Record??The image of a Celtic society: medieval West Highland sculpture by David H Caldwell, Fiona M McGibbon, Suzanne Miller and Nigel A RuckleyJust what did a nemeton look like anyway?

By Kristen ErskineCelts, Romans and Germans in the Rhineland by Michael NelsonThe ancient Celts: classical perceptions and modern definitions by David Sheehan'Celts in the Gobi desert': a linguistico-archaeological mess by Aedeen CreminCelts in History??Gendering the foundation myths of Scotland in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries by Michelle SmithEdmund Burke and Mary Wollstonecraft's Irish education by Mary SpongbergEamhain Mhacha in this world and in the otherworld by Penny PollardMyth and legend in the landscape of the Rhondda Valley, south Wales, as a source of cultural identity by Graham Aubrey'And anyway she was always going about with the Mother of God': the Brigid and Mary stories in Gaelic culture by Mary O'ConnellCelts in Law??The idea of continuation and extinguishment of 'Welsh' customary land law in the face of Norman-English conquest and legal regime change by Michael StuckeyThe Welsh laws of women by Gwenyth RichardsThe Scottish Highlands and the conscience of the nation, 1886 to 2003 by Ewen A CameronCelts in Literature??Irish myths: fantastic nonsense or a real record of astronomical catastrophes? by Patrick McCaffertyImperial Roman elements in the architecture of the city in Saltair na Rann by Tessa MorrisonFiction, feminism and the 'Celtic Church': the Sister Fidelma novels of Peter Tremayne by Carole CusackMorgan le Fay: Celtic origins and literary images by Dominique Beth WilsonWicca in Eileanan and the problems of history by Lauren BernauerCelts in the Diaspora??Irish and Scottish child migrants at Pinjarra: maintaining a Celtic identity by Paula-Lee M MageeThe Irish language in Australia: survey of a community language by Dymphna Lonergan'A class equal to any for making prosperous colonists...': Ulster Protestant migrants in the Antipodes by Brad Patterson'Migrant fairies': an anthropological investigation of contemporary Celtic identity in the Australian setting as endorsed by mythical symbolism by Jeffrey ParkerCompeting Celticities: Cornish and Irish constructions of Australia by Philip Payton