Research Catalog

Title

Ancient Britons and the antiquarian imagination : ideas from the Renaissance to the Regency / Stuart Piggott.

Author

Piggott, Stuart

Publication

[London] : Thames and Hudson, c1989.

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Details

Description

175 p., [16] of plates : ill., maps; 24 cm.

Subject

• Geschichte 1500-1800
• Geschichte 1580-1800
• To 55 B.C
• Prehistoric peoples > Great Britain
• Antiquarians > Great Britain
• Britons > Historiography
• Great Britain > Antiquities
• Great Britain > Historiography. > To 55 B.C

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 167).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: the search for ancient Britain -- 1. The British antiquaries -- Antiquaries ridiculed -- Antiquaries on the defensive -- Antiquaries and archaeology -- The students of ancient Britain -- 2. The ancient authors: Eden to Ararat -- The authority of Moses -- Thrice-great Hermes -- Genesis and mankind -- Preadamites -- Ancient giants -- 3. From the ark to the Americas -- The world after the flood -- The most ancient Britons -- Woad, chariots and coracles -- The impact of America -- 4. Time, technology and the monuments -- Britons and stone tools -- The problem of bronze -- Optimism and Phoenicians -- The monuments: Stonehenge and megaliths -- Earthworks and hillforts -- Barrows and cairns -- 5. Relapse, romantics and stagnation -- Stukeley the field archaeologist -- The coins of the ancient Britons -- Decline -- Enter the Druids -- Stukeley as archdruid -- The antiquarian sequel -- Conjectural history -- Facts, not theory -- Aftermath.

ISBN

0500014701 (jacket) :

LCCN

^^^89050547^//r912

OCLC

• 20652286
• SCSB-11790000

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library