- Title Pages
- Notes on Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Anglo-Saxon England
- English History 1066–1272
- English Political History of the Late Middle Ages, 1272–c. 1520
- European History
- Ecclesiastical History
- Economic History
- Legal History
- Byzantine Scholarship: Twelfth-Century Constantinople, Twentieth-Century Britain
- Celtic Studies
- Old Norse-Icelandic Studies
- Slavonic Studies
- Chinese and Japanese Studies
- Language
- Latin
- Old English
- Middle English Literature
- German Studies
- Romance Studies 1: Francophone Studies
- Romance Studies 2: Hispanic Literatures
- Romance Studies 3: Dante
- Artefacts, Sites and Landscapes: Archaeology and Medieval Studies
- Numismatics
- History of Science and Medicine
- Cartography
- Medieval Thought
- Musicology
- The Study of Medieval Art I: 1900–50
- The Study of Medieval Art 2: 1950–2000
- Metrics
- The History of the Book
- Epilogue
- Index of Scholars
- Subject Index
Celtic Studies
Celtic Studies
- Chapter:
- (p.235) Celtic Studies
- Source:
- A Century of British Medieval Studies
- Author(s):
John T. Koch
- Publisher:
- British Academy
This chapter examines the history and developments in Celtic studies in Great Britain during the twentieth century. In recent times medieval Celtic studies have attracted great numbers of amateur enthusiast and this is partly because antiquarian Romanticism of the eighteenth and earlier nineteenth centuries implanted indelible notions about the Celts in the popular imagination. However, because of a lack of synthetic histories of the discipline and of widespread and early language training in the late twentieth century, it is hard to imagine a realistic university curriculum that could bring today's students to the point of reconsidering Celtic philology from a philosophical standpoint or within the history of ideas.
Keywords: Celtic studies, Great Britain, antiquarian Romanticism, synthetic histories, university curriculum, Celtic philology
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- Title Pages
- Notes on Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Anglo-Saxon England
- English History 1066–1272
- English Political History of the Late Middle Ages, 1272–c. 1520
- European History
- Ecclesiastical History
- Economic History
- Legal History
- Byzantine Scholarship: Twelfth-Century Constantinople, Twentieth-Century Britain
- Celtic Studies
- Old Norse-Icelandic Studies
- Slavonic Studies
- Chinese and Japanese Studies
- Language
- Latin
- Old English
- Middle English Literature
- German Studies
- Romance Studies 1: Francophone Studies
- Romance Studies 2: Hispanic Literatures
- Romance Studies 3: Dante
- Artefacts, Sites and Landscapes: Archaeology and Medieval Studies
- Numismatics
- History of Science and Medicine
- Cartography
- Medieval Thought
- Musicology
- The Study of Medieval Art I: 1900–50
- The Study of Medieval Art 2: 1950–2000
- Metrics
- The History of the Book
- Epilogue
- Index of Scholars
- Subject Index