Actualities: Druids reloaded

After a library scale bibliography, there is another book about druids, the mysterious priesthood of the Galls.

Miranda Aldhouse-Green's new book Caesar's Druids: an ancient priesthood (Yale University Press, Apr 05, 2010 , 352 p., 6 1/8 x 9 1/4,80 b/w) is giving a new perspective of this social and religious class  - similar to that of J. L. Brunaux (Les Druides, Seuil, 2006) - where druids appear also as "philosophers" of the Celtic world.

An other work of the author

A short description of the book at the page of Yale University Press: "Ancient chroniclers, including Julius Caesar himself, made the Druids and their sacred rituals infamous throughout the Western world. But in fact, as Miranda Aldhouse-Green shows in this fascinating book, the Druids’ day-to-day lives were far less lurid and much more significant. Exploring the various roles that Druids played in British and Gallic society during the first centuries B.C. and A.D.—not just as priests but as judges, healers, scientists, and power brokers—Aldhouse-Green argues that they were a highly complex, intellectual, and sophisticated group whose influence transcended religion and reached into the realms of secular power and politics. With deep analysis, fresh interpretations, and critical discussions, she gives the Druids a voice that resonates in our own time" (loc. cit.).

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