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Blood and Mistletoe: the History of the Druids in Britain Free FREE BLOOD AND MISTLETOE: THE HISTORY OF THE DRUIDS IN BRITAIN PDF Ronald Hutton | 492 pages | 24 May 2011 | Yale University Press | 9780300170856 | English | New Haven, United States Blood and Mistletoe | Yale University Press Uh-oh, it looks like your Internet Explorer is out of date. For a better shopping experience, please upgrade now. Javascript is not enabled in your browser. Enabling JavaScript in your browser will allow you to experience all the features of our site. Learn how to enable JavaScript on your browser. NOOK Book. Crushed by the Romans in the first century A. Because of this, historian Ronald Hutton shows, succeeding British generations have been free to reimagine, reinterpret, and reinvent the Druids. 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. Hutton charts how the Druids have been written in and out of history, archaeology, and the public consciousness for some years, with particular focus on the romantic period, when Druids completely dominated notions of British prehistory. Sparkling with legends and images, filled with new perspectives on ancient and modern times, this book is a fascinating cultural study of Druids as catalysts in British history. He lives in Bristol, UK. Home 1 Books 2. Read an excerpt of this book! Add to Wishlist. Overview Blood and Mistletoe: The History of the Druids in Britain by the Romans in the first century A. Related Searches. Praise for the author::'For anyone researching the subject, this is the book you've been waiting Praise for the author::'For anyone researching the subject, this is the book you've been waiting for. View Product. A Little History of the United States. 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Britain's pagan past, with its mysterious monuments, atmospheric sites, enigmatic artifacts, bloodthirsty legends, and cryptic Britain's pagan past, with its mysterious monuments, atmospheric sites, enigmatic artifacts, bloodthirsty legends, and cryptic Blood and Mistletoe: The History of the Druids in Britain, is both enthralling and perplexing to a resident of the twenty-first century. In this ambitious and thoroughly up-to-date Blood and Mistletoe: The History of the Druids in Britain, Ronald Hutton reveals the long Yale University Press. Blood and Mistletoe: The History of the Druids in Britain by Ronald Hutton Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Want to Read saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Other editions. Enlarge cover. Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Details if other :. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. Preview — Blood and Mistletoe by Ronald Hutton. Crushed by the Romans in the first century A. Because of this, historian Ronald Hutton shows, succeeding British generations have been free to reimagine, reinterpret, and reinvent the Druids. 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. Hutton charts how the Druids have been written in and out of history, archaeology, and the public consciousness for some years, with particular focus on the romantic period, when Druids completely dominated notions of British prehistory. Sparkling with legends and images, filled with new perspectives on ancient and modern times, this book is a fascinating cultural study of Druids as catalysts in British history. Get A Copy. Hardcoverpages. More Details Original Title. Other Editions 4. Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Blood and Mistletoeplease sign up. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 3. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Aug 22, Abigail Bok rated it really liked it Shelves: didn-t-finish. Ronald Hutton has built his career on being a buzz-killer for all of us who had a childhood crush on British pagans. While I mourn my youthful fantasies, I have to admire his scholarly rigor and commitment to resisting over-interpretation. I didn't finish this door-stopper tome ca. In Blood and Mistletoe: The History of the Druids in Britain Hutton examines the entire documentary record with strategic dives into archaeology referring to the Druids from Greek and Roman sources to medieval Irish and Welsh in order to demonstrate that there is nothing, nothing at all, we can really know about who the Druids were, their beliefs, practices, or place in society. By implication, he suggests we can't even know whether they even existed, though Blood and Mistletoe: The History of the Druids in Britain is inclined to think they did. For every claim made about them he is able to show why no single interpretation or determination of authenticity is possible. It's a shattering, bravura performance. I suppose it is possible to be too skeptical, but considering the cultures Blood and Mistletoe: The History of the Druids in Britain about the Druids, the motives behind their portrayals, and the standards of "history" writing in antiquity and the Middle Ages, his skepticism of the sources seems thoroughly justified. He left me with nothing to hang my old sorcerer's hat on! After tearing the ancient "record" of Druidry to shreds, Hutton moves on in subsequent chapters to a historiography of the ways subsequent British societies used the idea of the Druid to promote their worldviews, and the systems of belief constructed by modern people identifying as Druid. I got through some of the historiography but none of the modern religious practice and therefore can't comment on those aspects of the book, but if you're interested in these subjects, this is the third book by Hutton I have read and I respect his skills. Perhaps a search for authenticity in spiritual practice by plumbing the spiritual practices of the past is a misguided effort anyway. May 23, Maya rated it it was amazing Shelves: druid-celtic-religion. Ronald Hutton is presenting the outcome of his research into the subject of Druidry, which took place between and Unlike his previous book The Druids, this book is in depth, and its format is chronological, which gives the reader time to fully integrate and compare each time period to the one preceding it. It talks about the druids from the time they were first mentioned until the modern day. In the last statement of the introduction to Blood and Mistletoe: The History of the Druids in Britain book, Ronald Hutton tells us what this Blood and Mistletoe: The History of the Druids in Britain Ronald Hutton is presenting the outcome of his research into the subject of Druidry, which took place between and In the last statement of the introduction to the book, Ronald Hutton tells us what Blood and Mistletoe: The History of the Druids in Britain book is really about from his point of view. XV I think anyone reading this book will come to the conclusion that not everything is as it seems. The origins of some of the orders will certainly surprise the members who are in them now. This is an illuminating book that is a must read for anyone who is interested in Druidry and druids. As for the goal of the book which is a look at the British and how they saw themselves and their island I think that Hutton has done an amazing job of fulfilling that goal.
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