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The tribe of witches : the religion of the Dobunni and Hwicce / Stephen J. Yeates.
LIBRA BL980.G7 Y437 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Yeates, Stephen James, 1965-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hwicce--Religion.
- Hwicce.
- Dobunni--Religion.
- Dobunni.
- Archaeology and religion--Severn River Valley (Wales and England).
- Archaeology and religion.
- Religion and geography.
- Archaeology and religion--England--Cotswold Hills.
- Religion.
- England--Cotswold Hills.
- Severn River Valley (Wales and England)--Antiquities.
- Severn River Valley (Wales and England).
- Severn River Valley (Wales and England)--Religion--History.
- Cotswold Hills (England)--Antiquities.
- Cotswold Hills (England).
- Cotswold Hills (England)--Religion--History.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 195 pages : illustrations, maps. ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxbow Books, 2008.
- Summary:
- Discussions concerning pre-Christian religion in Western Europe have, for many years, been considered problematic due to a lack of texts, material culture, and the theoretical framework into which place-name studies have been constructed. In the Severn valley area, there are major issues concerning the survival of pagan traditions from the Iron Age and Roman period through the introduction of Christianity and into the early medieval period. This study examines the relationship between two groups of peoples, or tribes, the Iron Age Dobunni and the early medieval people know as Hwicce, whose territories in the Severn Valley and Cotswolds overlapped. Stephen Yeates discusses whether it is possible to obtain a definition of pre-Christian religion and ascertain the motivations which underlay it, through studying various associations between religion and other areas of knowledge, for example between religion and the environment, between religion and socio-political organisation, and between religion and other social themes.
- Contents:
- 1 The Dobunni, the Hwicce and Religion 1
- 2 The Deity and the Landscape 9
- 3 The Sacred Rivers 30
- 4 The Gods of Tribes and Folk-groups 59
- 5 Mining and Minerals: Hill-forts and Temples 90
- 6 The Gods of War 102
- 7 The Hunter God and the Sacred Grove 107
- 8 Tree Shrines 117
- 9 Religion as a Focus for Burial 124
- 10 The Sacred Horse 132
- 11 A Goddess for the Dobunni 137
- 12 The Arrival of Christianity: The Locations of Shrines and Minster Churches 147
- 13 The Never Dying Gods: Natural Deities in a Christian World 157.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781842173190
- 1842173197
- OCLC:
- 233787421
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