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1 online resource |
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Intro; PROLOGUE; PROLOGUE: Introducing a Sacred Isle; CHAPTER ONEThe Druids: Priesthood, power and politics; CHAPTER TWOForeign Conquest and Shifting Identities: New cults and old traditions; CHAPTER THREEMarching as to War: Religion and the Roman army; CHAPTER FOURTown and Country: Urban devotions and rural rituals; CHAPTER FIVECosmology in Roman Britain: Sky, earth and water; CHAPTER SIXGut-Gazers and God-Users: Divination, curing and cursing; CHAPTER SEVENSubverting Symbols: Heads, horns and seeing triple; CHAPTER EIGHTCandles in the Dark and Spice from the Orient: Mystery cults |
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CHAPTER NINEThe Coming of Christ: From many gods to oneCHAPTER TENJourney into Avernus: Death, burial and perceptions of afterlife; CHAPTER ELEVENWorshipping Together: Acceptance, integration and antagonism; EPILOGUE:Closing the Curtain: Reflecting on things past; Notes; Bibliography; Acknowledgments; Picture Credits; Index; Introducing a Sacred Isle; 1; 2; 3; Chapter 1; 4; 5; 6; p. ii; 7; 8; 9; 10; 11; CHAPTER ONE; 12; 13; 14; 15; 16; 17; 18; 19; 20; 21; pp. ii; iii; 22; 23; 24; 25; Chapter 6 |
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780500774199 |
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0500774196 |
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