Celtic Culture: A Historical Encyclopedia

Research into the world of Celtic studies for the educated general reader has hitherto been fraught with problems. On the one hand are the daunting scholarly works, full of difficulty for the non‐specialist, from which information must be teased; on the other, the often insubstantial and inaccurate works emphasizing popular elements of a loosely‐defined “Celtic” tradition where dubious information is presented as scholarship. John Koch, Senior Research Fellow at the University of Wales, reader at the University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies in Aberystwyth, and editor of an earlier work, The Celtic Heroic Age, has...