Medievalists.net » Britons (Celtic people) http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Sun, 06 Dec 2015 19:35:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 Who Were The Celts? The British Museum Offers Answers with New Exhibition http://www.medievalists.net/2015/09/28/who-were-the-celts-the-british-museum-offers-answers-with-new-exhibition/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/09/28/who-were-the-celts-the-british-museum-offers-answers-with-new-exhibition/#comments Mon, 28 Sep 2015 11:51:22 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=61384 The British Museum just opened its latest exhibit, Celts: Art and Identity this past Thursday, covering 2,500 years of Celtic history. The exhibit explores Celtic identity and how it eveolved from the time of the Ancient Greeks to the present through art, culture, daily life, religion and politics.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/09/28/who-were-the-celts-the-british-museum-offers-answers-with-new-exhibition/feed/ 0 A British legion stationed near Orléans c. 530? http://www.medievalists.net/2014/09/02/british-legion-stationed-near-orleans-c-530/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/09/02/british-legion-stationed-near-orleans-c-530/#comments Tue, 02 Sep 2014 12:17:02 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=52276 Several recent books lead the reader to believe that Vita sancti Dalmatii, written in c. 800, records a legio Britannica (a British army) stationed near Orléans in c. 530. As this paper demonstrates, the only correct detail of this purported record is the word legio, and this may well have a non-military connotation.

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