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Who Were The Celts? The British Museum Offers Answers with New Exhibition

September 28, 2015 By Medievalists.net

Gundestrup Cauldron Silver Gundestrup, northern Denmark, 100 BC–AD 1 © The National Museum of Denmark. The British Museum. Photo by Medievalists.net

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.

Filed Under: Places To See Tagged With: Anglo-Celtic, Art History, British Museum, Britons (Celtic people), Celtic, Conversion, Early Middle Ages, England, Exhibitions, Fall of the Roman Empire, Gaelic, Gallo-Roman, Ireland, London, Monasticism, Museums, Places to See, Roman Britain, Roman Empire, Scotland, Travel, Wales

Goths, Lombards, Romans, and Greeks: Creating Identity in Early Medieval Italy

July 16, 2014 By Medievalists.net

This essay explores how two different non-Roman historians represented the past to their peoples: the Gothic historian Jordanes’ sixth-century work, the Getica, and the eighth-century Lombard historian Paul the Deacons’ History of the Lombards.

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Barbarians, Carolingian Renaissance, Carolingians, Early Middle Ages, Eighth Century, Ethnography, Fall of the Roman Empire, Fifth Century, Franks, Germania, Getica, Goths, Greek, Herwig Wolfram, Historiography, History of the Lombards, Italo-Greek, Italy, Jordanes, Lombards, Nationalism, Odoacer, Patrick Amory, Paul the Deacon (Paulus Diaconus), Roman Empire, Sixth Century