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Blood and Mistletoe

The History of the Druids in Britain

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Blood and Mistletoe

Yazan: Ronald Hutton
Seslendiren: Jennifer M. Dixon
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The acclaimed author of Witches, Druids, and King Arthur presents a "lucid, open-minded" cultural history of the Druids as part of British identity (Terry Jones).

Crushed by the Romans in the first century A.D., the ancient Druids of Britain left almost no reliable evidence behind. Historian Ronald Hutton shows how this lack of definite information has allowed succeeding British generations to reimagine, reinterpret, and reinvent the Druids. 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. 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 completely dominated notions of British prehistory. Sparkling with legends, filled with new perspectives on ancient and modern times, this fascinating cultural study reveals Druids as catalysts in British history.

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Thoughtful and in-depth with wonderful portraits of a range of eccentric and mischievous actors over several centuries.

Thorough and enchanting

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Ronald Hutton’s meticulously researched and well presented history of Druids and and the ideas and concepts that have been built around Druidry is fascinating and illuminating.

Comprehensive and erudite history of Druidry

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A complete investigation into Druids, amazing that so much was decided by fantasy & ego. Of course without proof, a theory is all it will ever be, but truly fascinating from start to finish.

A monumental piece of work worth of the time required.

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The narrator clearly cannot pronounce Welsh, Irish, Scottish or French words. If you re going to an employer narrator please make sure they can actually say the words correctly.

Ronald Hutton's approach to research Is amazing. It is ruined by the narrator who is awful!

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Be aware before you buy, Hutton often produces sibling books on a given subject - an accessible and relatively compact one targeted at the general reader, and a much longer, more detailed academic study. This one is the latter. It's a serious and considered work, with Hutton's distinctive elegant and occasionally gently humorous style, but there's a lot of it, and a great deal of literary criticism. Be aware also that this is a real history of druidry, which means that it is mostly a history of eighteenth and nineteenth century fantasy and make-believe, albeit of great cultural resonance. That said, it's fascinating, and has ideas and echoes running all over the place, particularly in the way Hutton traces the vagaries of the British relationships with their own history/imaginary history, patriotism and the Romans. It is not read by Hutton himself, but the reader is clearly well informed and in touch with the material, and does a terrific job.. A slight health warning: if you are the sort of person who chokes on their bara brith at a dodgy pronunciation of a Welsh word, you might get annoyed, as the reader's Welsh is a touch eccentric, but then she's got a helluva mountain to climb here, and I doubt my Irish or Gaelic or Brythonic pronunciations (which she has to tackle in abundance) are up to much, so I refuse to judge - there but for Iolo Morgannwg go I.

A serious and academic cultural history of druidry

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