Monday 18th November 2024 - Andrew Breeze
'Medieval Celtic Britain: Fact and Fiction
'Abstract: Medieval Celtic Britain: Fact and Fiction.
Celts are in fashion. They suggest druids, myths, legends, bards, pagan gods and goddesses, Other World magic, Queen Boudica and Arthur of Britain. But how much of this is true? Apparently, a great deal. Dr Andrew Breeze offers up-to-date interpretations of ancient and medieval Britons, with emphasis on what we know of their early paganism and beliefs in the Other World, as well as on the real 'King' Arthur (a sixth-century North British champion) and the classic stories of love and adventure called -The Mabinogion.
Bio:
Andrew Breeze FRHistS FSA (born 1954), has been professor of philology at the University of Navarra since 1987 Breeze was born in 1954 and educated at Sir Roger Manwood's School, Emmanuel College, Cambridge (where he took a first in English in 1974 and in Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic in 1976 and his PhD in 1992), and at St John's College, Oxford (where he took a diploma in Celtic studies in 1978). In 1986, he worked as a scholar for the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies at the school of Celtic Studies.
'Medieval Celtic Britain: Fact and Fiction
'Abstract: Medieval Celtic Britain: Fact and Fiction.
Celts are in fashion. They suggest druids, myths, legends, bards, pagan gods and goddesses, Other World magic, Queen Boudica and Arthur of Britain. But how much of this is true? Apparently, a great deal. Dr Andrew Breeze offers up-to-date interpretations of ancient and medieval Britons, with emphasis on what we know of their early paganism and beliefs in the Other World, as well as on the real 'King' Arthur (a sixth-century North British champion) and the classic stories of love and adventure called -The Mabinogion.
Bio:
Andrew Breeze FRHistS FSA (born 1954), has been professor of philology at the University of Navarra since 1987 Breeze was born in 1954 and educated at Sir Roger Manwood's School, Emmanuel College, Cambridge (where he took a first in English in 1974 and in Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic in 1976 and his PhD in 1992), and at St John's College, Oxford (where he took a diploma in Celtic studies in 1978). In 1986, he worked as a scholar for the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies at the school of Celtic Studies.