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  • The Invisible Hive: Honey, Mead and Beekeeping in Celtic Europe

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    Honey and beeswax survive. The hives that produced them do not.In the great cauldrons and drinking vessels of Iron Age Europe, archaeology has found traces of honey-rich drinks. Beeswax has been identified behind the silver plates of the Gundestrup cauldron. Centuries later, early Irish law could decide who owned a swarm, what a hive was worth, and how much honey the sick were owed.Yet no Iron Age ... Leer más

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  • Forest and Steppe: Climate, Landscape, and the Making of the Early Slavic World

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    At Novgorod's excavated cultural layers, wooden street planking dates to specific years through dendrochronology, birchbark documents preserve household correspondence, and pollen records trace centuries of forest clearance in the surrounding hinterland. This is the evidence from which the environmental history of the early Slavic world can be reconstructed.Forest and Steppe draws together ... Leer más

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  • Ana or Danu? The Search for Ireland’s Mother of the Gods

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    Everyone knows Danu, or thinks they do.Often presented as the ancient mother goddess of Ireland, ancestor of the Tuatha Dé Danann and ruler of earth, rivers and fertility, Danu has become one of the most familiar figures in Celtic mythology. But what do the medieval Irish sources actually say?Ana or Danu? follows the trail back through glossaries, manuscripts, place-names, folklore and the ... Leer más

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  • Enchanted Britain and Ireland: A Complete History of Magic in the British Isles

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    A Bronze Age sword is dropped into the Thames as an offering to powers beneath the water. A Roman citizen scratches a curse onto lead and casts it into a sacred spring. A medieval monk copies a spell for summoning angels into the margins of a psalter. A seventeenth-century farmer buries a bottle of nails and urine beneath his hearth to break a witch's curse. A modern Druid raises her arms to greet ... Leer más

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  • Coyolxauhqui: The Dismembered Moon

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    In February 1978, electrical workers digging beneath downtown Mexico City struck a stone disk three meters across, carved with the dismembered body of a Mexica goddess. The stone had lain face-up under the colonial plaza for four and a half centuries.Her name was Coyolxauhqui, "Bells-Her-Cheeks." She was the daughter of the earth mother Coatlicue, the sister of the war god Huitzilopochtli, and the ... Leer más

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  • Early Medieval Wales: From Roman Collapse to English Conquest (410 - 1282 CE)

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    Everyone knows 1066. The Norman Conquest. The Domesday Book. Medieval England.But while England was being conquered, Wales was fighting back. And winning.For two centuries after the Normans took England, Wales remained independent. Welsh kings united the country, created legal codes more progressive than England's, and forced English kings to recognize Welsh sovereignty. For 900 years, Wales ... Leer más

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  • Borderlands and Bloodlines: Marcher Lords, Welsh Lords, and the Making of the Medieval Frontier (c. 1066–1300)

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    In 1210, King John had Maud de St Valéry and her eldest son walled up in a royal castle and left to starve. Offered the chance to buy her family's peace by surrendering her son as a hostage, she had refused, sending word that she would not entrust her child to a king who had murdered his own nephew. Her husband William de Braose — once the most powerful Marcher lord in Wales — died in exile in ... Leer más

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  • Roman Wales and the End of Roman Britain (43 - 410 CE)

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    Why did Wales stay Welsh?Rome conquered the region in brutal campaigns that lasted decades. Rome occupied it with more soldiers per square mile than almost anywhere else in the empire. Rome ruled it for more than three hundred years.And yet Wales never became Roman.No villas. No towns. No Latin. Just forts, roads, and a population that outlasted the empire by staying exactly who they'd always been ... Leer más

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  • Banpo: Life and Legacy of a Neolithic Village in the Wei River Valley

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    China's textbooks know exactly what Banpo was: a peaceful, matriarchal clan of millet farmers standing at the dawn of Chinese civilization. The site itself tells a stranger, less tidy story.More than six thousand years ago, a farming community on the Wei River terrace near modern Xi'an built round houses around a large central building, dug a wide ditch to enclose their homes, fired painted ... Leer más

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  • The Hollow Hills: The Gods, Heroes and Otherworld of Irish Myth

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    Most books about Irish myth are either too dry to enjoy or too eager to believe. This one refuses both.The Morrígan washing the armour of men about to die. Cú Chulainn lashed upright to a standing stone so he could meet death on his feet. A whole race of gods retreating underground to become the fairy-folk. These are among the greatest stories Europe ever told — and Ireland left the earliest and ... Leer más

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  • Matilda of Flanders: The Wife of William the Conqueror and the Woman Behind the Bayeux Tapestry Myth

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    The wife of William the Conqueror sent gold, in secret, to a man in arms against him.The man was her son.When the Conqueror discovered it, he raged that he had trusted her with his treasury and with justice throughout all his dominions. Matilda of Flanders did not deny it. She told him she would gladly die if it would bring her son back from the grave.He did nothing to her at all. This was a man ... Leer más

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  • Mazu: Empress of Heaven and Sea

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    Nobody sets out to invent a god. So how does it happen?In the tenth century, on a poor island off the Fujian coast, a shaman's daughter named Lin Moniang went into the sea after a drowning sailor and never came back. She was barely out of her teens, and she should have been forgotten within a generation.Instead, the fishermen who mourned her began to see her: a girl in red robes moving over the ... Leer más

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