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"A new history of the Celts that reveals how this once-forgotten people became a pillar of modern national identity in Britain, Ireland, and France. Before the Greeks and Romans, the Celts ruled the ancient world. They sacked Rome, invaded Greece, and conquered much of Europe, from Ireland to Turkey. Celts registered deeply on the classical imagination for a thousand years and were variously described by writers like Caesar and Livy as unruly barbarians, fearless warriors, and gracious hosts. But then, in the early Middle Ages, they vanished."--

Note biographique

Ian Stewart is an intellectual and cultural historian of modern Europe and a Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh’s Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities.

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