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Celts
Now in its second edition, this comprehensive history of the Celts draws on archaeological, historical, literary and linguistic evidence to provide a comprehensive and colourful overview from origins to the present. Divided into three parts, the first covers the continental Celts in prehistory and antiquity, complete with accounts of the Celts in Germany, France, Italy, Iberia and Asia Minor. Part Two follows the Celts from the departure of the Romans to the late Middle Ages, including the migrations to and settlements in Ireland, Wales, Scotland and Brittany. This section also includes discussions of the Celtic kingdoms and the significance of Christianisation. Part Three brings the history of the Celts up to the present, covering the assimilation of the Celts within the national cultures of Great Britain, France and Ireland. Included in this consideration are the suppression of Gaelic, the declines, revivals and survivals of languages and literatures, and the histories of Celtic culture. The book concludes with a discussion of the recent history of the meaning of 'Celtic' and an examination of the cultural legacy of the Celts in the modern era.
Victorian Orientalism
The European encounter with Eastern languages, literatures and civilizations is now the subject of intense academic debate: more than at any time since the publication of Edward Said's Orientalism. Bernhard Maier here examines the different facets of Victorian Orientalism, and explores the wider questions of identity and cultural imperialism relating to Britain in the 19th century. Specifying individual regions of encounter, Maier describes the very different responses which Palestine, Egypt, India, China and Japan evoked in the Victorian mind, and sheds light on the attitudes prevalent among administrators and military men, missionaries, philologists and historians, travellers, writers and artists towards the Orient. Exploring the wealth of secondary literature relating to Orientalism, from scholarly monographs and archival material to original fiction, prose and poetry, Maier illuminates a crucial stage in the history of cultural encounters between Europe and the East.
William Robertson Smith
William Robertson Smith (1846-1894) was successively the embattled champion of the emergent higher criticism as applied to the Old Testament, chief editor of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, and Professor of Arabic at Cambridge University. Today he is acknowledged to have been a pioneering figure in both social anthropology and the study of comparative religion, deeply influencing the thinking of J. G. Frazer, Emile Durkheim and Sigmund Freud. The first full-length biography of Robertson Smith to be published for almost a hundred years, this text makes use of hitherto unknown material preserved by the Smith family and draws upon the extensive range of correspondence between Smith and such schol...
The Celts
This comprehensive history of the Celts from origins to the present draws on archaeological, historical, literary and linguistic evidence. It is divided into three parts. Part one covers the continental Celts in prehistory and antiquity, complete with accounts of the Celts in Germany, Italy, Iberia and Asia Minor. The second part follows the Celts from the departure of the Romans to the late Middle Ages, including the migrations to and settlements in Ireland, Wales, Scotland and Brittany. Discussions of the Celtic kingdoms and the rise and fall of Celtic Christianity are also given. The final part brings the history of the Celts up to the present, covering the assimilation of the Celts within the national cultures of Great Britain, France and Ireland. Included in this consideration are the suppression of Gaelic, the declines, revivals and survivals of languages and literatures, and the histories of Celtic culture. The book concludes with a discussion of the recent history of the meaning of Celtic in contrast to, for example, Germanic, and the effect this has had on modern perceptions of the Celtic past and attempts at Celtic cultural renewal.
Weltgeschichte der Religionen
Seit Urzeiten erkunden Menschen den Willen der Götter, befolgen deren heilige Ordnung und hoffen auf Erlösung. Bernhard Maier beschreibt anschaulich die Geschichte der Religionen von den frühesten Grabkulten über die Weltbilder des Alten Orients und den Monotheismus bis zu den heutigen Religionskonflikten und der individuellen Suche vieler Menschen nach Heil. Wann sind die Religionen entstanden, und warum gibt es sie (fast) überall auf der Welt? Bernhard Maier erzählt die Geschichte der Religionen von den archäologisch nachweisbaren Anfängen bis heute. Dabei gelingt es ihm meisterhaft, die Eigenheiten großer und kleiner Religionen prägnant zu porträtieren, parallele Entwicklungen in Schlüsselepochen deutlich zu machen und Mythologien, Zeitvorstellungen oder heilige Stätten miteinander zu vergleichen. Wer seinen eindrucksvollen Überblick gelesen hat, wird besser verstehen, warum Religionen auch heute noch so machtvoll sind und selbst eingefleischte Skeptiker zutiefst faszinieren.
Geschichte Schottlands
Dass Schottland in vielem so ganz anders ist als das benachbarte England, wissen wir nicht erst seit dem Referendum über die schottische Unabhängigkeit. Landschaft, Sprache und Kultur, von den Kilts über die Schlösser bis zur schottischen Literatur, haben ihren eigenen Charakter, und ebenso entwickelten sich Politik, Religion und Gesellschaft häufig in anderen Bahnen als beim südlichen Nachbarn. Bernhard Maier gibt in diesem Band einen profunden und anschaulichen Überblick über die schottische Geschichte von der Steinzeit und den frühen Kelten bis zur unmittelbaren Gegenwart.
Dictionary of Celtic Religion and Culture
This dictionary, with more than 1000 articles, provides a comprehensive survey of all important aspects of Celtic religion and culture, covering both the prehistoric continental Celts and the later, medieval culture that found written form long after the Celts had settled in the British Isles. Articles in the dictionary also cover the interaction between Celtic and Roman civilisations, and the seminal input of medieval Celtic legend into the Arthurian tradition. The continental and insular Celtic languages, both ancient and modern, are described, and there is a full account of the Celtic deities known to us from the inscriptions and iconography of the classical world. Celtic art and agriculture, the Ossian myth, the Irish Renaissance, and the history of Celtic studies are among other areas treated in depth.
Die Druiden
Nichts ist den Druiden – so nennen sie ihre Magier – heiliger als die Mistel und der Baum, auf dem sie wächst, wofern es nur eine Eiche ist. Schon deshalb wählen sie Eichenhaine und vollziehen kein Opfer ohne Eichenlaub, so dass sie vielleicht deswegen in griechischer Deutung «Druiden» [von griechisch drys/Eiche] zu heißen scheinen. Sie meinen wahrhaftig, dass alles, was auf jenen Bäumen wächst, vom Himmel gesandt und ein Kennzeichen des von der Gottheit selbst erwählten Baumes sei. (...) Sie bezeichnen die Mistel mit einem Wort ihrer Sprache als «Allheiler». Nachdem man das Opfer und das Festmahl unter dem Baum feierlich vorbereitet hat, führen sie zwei Stiere von weißer Far...
