Twenty-Five Women Who Shaped the Celtic World
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- ISBN 9781032256344
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 26 Nov 2026
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Twenty-Five Women Who Shaped the Celtic World takes readers on a whirlwind journey through over two millennia of sources that provide insight to the lives and lore of remarkable women in the Celtic tradition.
From approximately 500 BCE, when the so-called ‘Lady of Vix’ was interred in her Hallstatt-era cart burial in what would become Central France, to the twelfth century when the Irish, Welsh, and Scots navigated the changes brought by Anglo-Norman colonization, women’s stories trace the rise and fall of the Celtic-speaking world. The chapters provide a broad and varied examination of historically attested women as well as the mythological, literary, and legendary women of the medieval tradition. Finally, women of the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century ‘Celtic Revival’ movement demonstrate the continued significance of the ancient and medieval Celtic past into the modern era.
While the Celtic past is all too often ignored or fetishized, this book provides readers with a concise yet fully contextualized introduction, valuable to anyone seeking to better their understanding of women’s history and Celtic history.
Jennifer Dukes-Knight is a historian of the medieval North Atlantic, with a focus on the literary tradition of early medieval Ireland. She is an Associate Professor of Teaching and the Director of Graduate Studies at the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at the University of Notre Dame. She is a founding member and continuing affiliate of the Irish Studies Initiative of the University of South Florida Humanities Institute.
Elizabeth Ricketts-Jones is an Associate Professor of Instruction in the Department of English at the University of South Florida. She teaches literature, professional writing, and first year composition courses. Her teaching and research focus on 20th century Irish and Irish American literature. She is the faculty lead of the Irish Studies Initiative within the USF Humanities Institute. Dr. Ricketts-Jones also serves on the leadership team of the Southern Regional branch of the American Conference for Irish Studies.
