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The Druids
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Ronald Hutton's history traces how the ancient Druids have been imagined, reconstructed and claimed by writers across two millennia, from classical Greek and Roman sources through the Romantic revival to modern Druidry, working from the documented record of what each period's writers actually said rather than from any claim to recover the real ancient Druids themselves. This record states the field's real evidentiary limit honestly: the surviving classical evidence for actual pre-Roman Druidic religion is extremely thin, and this book documents that scarcity rather than filling the gap with invented detail. Use it for established facts about the historiography and later reception of the Druid idea across these periods; it is not a source claiming to recover ancient Druidic belief itself, which the surviving evidence does not support in detail.
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Ronald Hutton's scholarly history of how the ancient Druids have been imagined and reconstructed across two millennia; the surviving classical evidence for actual pre-Roman Druidic religion is extremely thin, and this book documents that scarcity rather than filling it in. NotesRonald Hutton's scholarly history of how the ancient Druids have been imagined, reconstructed and claimed across two millennia of later writers, from classical sources through Romantic revival to modern Druidry. Use for established facts about the historiography and later reception of the Druid idea; the surviving classical evidence for actual pre-Roman Druidic religion is extremely thin, and this book documents that scarcity rather than filling it in.
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AuthorRonald Hutton
PublisherHambledon Continuum
Publication Year2007
URLhttps://archive.org/details/druids0000hutt
Source Typeacademic monograph
Claims Backed By This Source (113 claims)
This source backs 113 claims across the atlas. As facts: 81 well-attested. As cited relationships: 12 holds. Plus 20 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
Disposition By Topic
- Sacred Sites, 29 claims: 17 well-attested, 7 holds, 5 general references.
- Doctrines, 23 claims: 18 well-attested, 5 general references.
- Articles, 14 claims: 13 well-attested, 1 general references.
- Deities, 10 claims: 5 well-attested, 4 holds, 1 general references.
- Religious Symbols, 8 claims: 7 well-attested, 1 general references.
- Sources, 8 claims: 8 well-attested.
- Religious Offices, 7 claims: 5 well-attested, 1 holds, 1 general references.
- Religions, 6 claims: 5 well-attested, 1 general references.
- Cultures, 3 claims: 1 well-attested, 2 general references.
- Practices, 3 claims: 2 well-attested, 1 general references.
- Calendars, 1 claims: 1 general references.
- Religious Roles & Titles, 1 claims: 1 general references.
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