/Students are responsible for checking online for the most up-to-date version of the syllabus, since this schedule will be modified as our semester progresses. See other Course Requirements.

Seminar Schedule

1

Introduction to the Celts and to the course:
  • Discussion of source material and course material
  • Encounter with Blackboard and course website
  • Background: ancient Civilizations, the oral traditon
  • Colin Renfrew's controversial theory: "The Origins of Indo-European Languages" - how did Indo European spread around the world? Warfare or agriculture?
2

  • Visions of the Celts
  • The reality of the Celts, via Barry Cunliffe's The Ancient Celts  
3

  • Hallstatt
  • La Tène

 
4

  

 Celts & the Classical world
5

   

    Continuity (or not) forward to Irish insular culture

6

  Early Medieval Ireland, 400 - 1200
7

  • The Ulster Cycle in Irish History
  • John T, Koch & John Carey, The Heroic Age
  • Seminar Report Discussion
8

  • Culture, Learning & Law
9

 

  • Roman Christianity
  • Irish Christianity
  • Celtic & Anglo-Saxon Britain/The Synod of Whitby
10

  • Saint Columba's Cathach & Hiberno-Saxon visual arts
  • Papers on Sources
 11

  • Viking Invasions
  • Land Use, Settlement & Economy 
12

  • Fenian Cycle
  • Mabinogian
  • Laws, Family & Community
13

  • Monks, Saints & Heroes
  • From the heroic to the hagiographical
  •   Your Vikings
14

  "The Visionary Celt: The Construction of an Ethnic Preconception"
  • Discussion of the Patrick Sims-Williams' article
15

  • "The Secret of Roan Inish"
 

  • Hand-in Term Papers

 

 

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The Celtic Synthesis