With a wealth of historical expertise, Professor Jennifer Paxton. Paxton teaches British and Irish history at The Catholic University of America, where she is a clinical assistant professor of history and director of the university honors program. In The Celtic World, discover the incredible story of the Celtic-speaking peoples. Ironically, the precarious health of the Celtic languages stands in marked contrast to the worldwide popularity of Celtic-inspired music. The term “Celtic Tiger,” used to describe the success of the Irish economy from the 1990s onward, demonstrates how important Celtic identity is to contemporary politics in Ireland. The obsession with Scottish tartan even extended to the decidedly non-Celtic British royal family. The Celtic revival played a vital role in the independence struggle in Ireland and in the rise of cultural nationalism in Wales and Scotland. In the 16th century scholars took new interest the Celtic legacy, and popular culture followed suit, leading to a fascination with Celtic history, literature, and art. Rather, these features coalesced among peoples in northwestern Europe, who were pushed to the margins by the Romans and then dominated by the rising nation-states of Britain, France, and Spain. The holder of a doctorate in history from Harvard University, where she has also taught and earned a Certificate of Distinction, Professor Paxton is both a widely published award-winning writer and a highly regarded scholar, earning both a Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities and a Frank Knox Memorial Traveling Fellowship. In examining the complex and fascinating legacy of the Celtic world, historian Jennifer Paxton reveals that the traits we associate with the Celts-their language, their art, and their customs-may not have arisen among a single ethnic group. Jennifer Paxton, author of The Story of Medieval England From King Arthur to The Tudor Conquest, on LibraryThing. Modern scholarship has transformed what we thought we knew about the people known to the classical world as the Celts. What makes something “Celtic”? Can we draw any connection between the Gaulish warriors who defied Caesar and the performers of Riverdance? The ancient Celts terrified the Greeks and Romans, but the modern-day revival of Celtic music and art charms millions of people around the world.

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