Fantasy-roman.

The book covers the period between 800 BC and 400 AD. Animals played a crucial role in many aspects of Celtic life: in the economy, hunting, warfare, art, literature and religion.

Negotiating a fragile peace among the warring clans of the human and faerie worlds, the goddess Aisling is confronted by the forces of the Vatican and England, who have directed a clandestine student of forbidden magic to lead a war to ...

The book includes chapters on archaeology, language, literature, warfare, rural life, towns, art, religion and myth, trade and industry, political organization, society and technology.

Jones describes the vital roles of women in those communities, with their customary powers of "seeing," healing, blessing, and cursing.

'This book does provide a thoroughly researched and clearly presented picture of those Celts who strayed into the classical world and of the fronge Celtic communities at the moment when they were overrun and assimilated by Rome.' - THES

"The influence of the Celts is far more widespread than its fragmented survival in the outer fringes of western Europe indicates; this once important culture is still a vital component of European civilisation and heritage, from east to ...