Product Description: Celtic and Gothic: both words refer today to both ancient tribes and modern styles. Celtic is associated with harp music, native knitwear, and spirituality; Gothic with medieval cathedrals, rock bands, and horror fiction. The eleven essays collected together here chart some of the curious and unexpected ways in which the Celts and the Goths were appropriated and reinvented in Britain and other European countries through the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries becoming not just mythologised races, but lending their names to abstract principles and entire value systems...read more

Product Description: During the last two decades, numerous studies have been devoted to the Victorian fascination with King Arthur, however . the figure of King Alfred has received almost no attention. For much of the nineteenth century, Alfred was as important as Arthur in the British popular imagination...read more

Product Description: This collection of essays is not interested in the unresolved questions about the origin, original use, and authentic meaning of the prehistoric monuments of the British Isles. It is not concerned with their prehistory. Rather it deals with the history of barrows, standing stones, and stone circles: with the ways in which they have been viewed, the meanings that have been attributed to them, and the significant impact that they have had over the centuries on British life and culture - from motivating artists, authors, musicians and film-makers to inspiring 'New Age' religions...read more

Product Description: The Robin Hood tradition is best known in popular forms such as ballad, lyric, play, children's story and, in our own era, television and film. There have, however, also been a significant number of novelists who have devoted themselves to retelling and reshaping the story...read more

Product Description: First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Product Description: First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Product Description: First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Product Description: First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Product Description: First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.