Celtic History

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

The Celts are often disregarded as peripheral, and are usually only superficially treated in discussions of European history. In this course, we discuss what defines the Celtic World and the history of the Celtic-speaking peoples in the Iron Age, the Roman period, and the early histories of Ireland, Scotland, and Wales in the medieval period. While Celtic history admittedly suffers from a lack of reliable narrative accounts, the medieval Celtic countries possess some of the richest traditions of surviving literature, law, and poetry in all of Europe, which offer exceptional insight into the medieval culture of these lands.