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What are celtic studies
the study of culture, history, religion, mythology, folklore, music, law and politics, philology, language and literature
Who were celts
believed to be first inhabitants of the British Isles, settled around 1 k BC
surviving languages (4)
Breton
Irish
Welsh
Scottish Gaelic
4 principles:
1) An honour based society
2) Kin based society
3) Warrior society
4) Tribal territory
society divided into 4 classes
1)druids (priests,magicians,lawyers)
2)warriors (administrative duties)
3)farmers
4)slaves
HIGH POSITION OF WOMEN
-they were war leaders and rulers
-a woman was source of life
-had many rights
-money compensation in case of wounding
-in marriage women wasn’t her husband property
FAMILY
-there wasn’t pater familias (father as a head of the family)
-strong position of males
-collective responsibility (all responsible for one another)
-cyfran (inheriting property as a whole family)
social values (critiqued by romans)
-accepting concubinage
-separation and divorce
-fosterage (raising not ur child)
-hospitality (gościnność)
-fire
RELIGION AND BELIEFS
-many gods and goddesses (Epona-horse goddess)
-the concept of Otherworld
-reincarnation
-the concept of the head and the cauldron (the human head was kept at home)
LITERATURE MOTIVES
-the Otherworld
-mythology
-female goddesses marry humans
-court (dwór królewski)
-status of women
-shape-shifting (changing shape/identity)
-honour
THE CONSTITUTIO ANTONINIANA
issued in 212 by the Roman emperor Caracalla
all free men in the Roman Empire were to be given Roman citizenship
architecture
In Celtic Britain there weren’t towns, most ppl were farmers living in villages
latinisation
the popularization of the Latin language, ppl became bilingual in Latin and Welsh
Latin as …
language of law
The end of the Roman period when
410 the Romans withdrew from britain
