Celts. Mythology that formed our consciousness. M. Williams

A fresh and frank look at the history that underlies Celtic mythology. The book studies their influence on culture throughout history up to the present day.

since the legends and legends have been first recorded in the Middle Ages (and at that time it has already been hundreds of years!), Author and authors and authors Artists from around the world used mythical images in their subsequent works. How did it happen that they are so familiar to us, although they come from a world separated from us for centuries and so different from ours? As King Arthur, first mentioned in the early Welsh chronicles, has become a typical English hero paradoxically?

Oxford teacher and specialist in the Middle Ages, Mark Williams, explores the roots of legends and their heroes who had the greatest cultural influence and left their trail as in the genre of modern fantasy, and in culture as a whole.