Miranda Green
Biographic Data
| ID | 4681616 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Miranda Green |
| GIVEN NAMES | Miranda |
| FAMILY NAME | Green |
| SIGNATURE | GREEN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Open University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 61 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Celtic World
The Celtic World is a detailed and comprehensive study of the Celts from the first evidence of them in the archaeological and historical record to the early post-Roman period. The strength of this volume lies in its breadth - it looks at archaeology, language, literature, towns, warfare, rural life, art, religion and myth, trade and industry, political organisations, society and technology. The Celtic World draws together material from all over p…
Symbol and Image in Celtic Religious Art
In Symbol and Image in Celtic Religious Art , Miranda Green argues that only by deciphering their complex systems of images and symbols can we uncover the realities of Celtic life and belief in Europe before and during the Roman period. She explores a number of iconographic themes in depth and examines the tribal and regional differences in artistic cult expression to reveal the very varied concepts embraced by anthropomorphic imagery. Discussion…
Celtic Goddesses
Women in Celtic society goddesses of war the divine female in Welsh myth sovereignty, sexuality and the Otherworld in Irish myth water-goddesses, healers and mothers love, marriage and partnership priestess, prophet, witch mistress of beasts from goddess to saint
Humans as Ritual Victims in the Later Prehistory of Western Europe
The paper presented here addresses the issue of how far current evidence permits the admittance of ritual murder or human sacrifice in the European Iron Age. It argues from two basic premises: firstly that the notion of human sacrifice is the more acceptable within the context of strictly hierarchical, slave‐owning societies for whom human life was not, of itself, sacrosanct; secondly that, since there is a solid body of both literary and archaeo…
Crossing the Boundaries
This paper explores one aspect of the way in which cult-iconography of the later Iron Age and Roman periods in non-Classical Europe broke the rules of mimetic (life-copying) representation, with, reference to a particular motif: the triple horn. The presence of three-horned images within the iconographic repertoire of western Europe during this period clearly illustrates two aspects of such rule-breaking. On the one hand, the image of the triple-…
The British Celts and Their Gods under Rome
A Votive Model Shield From Langley, Oxfordshire
A miniature bronze oval shield was discovered probably in 1982 at Potters Hill Farm, Langley. The type of shield would accord well with a late Iron Age date, though full‐size shields of this general form continued in use until after the Roman conquest. A number of other pre‐Roman model shields from British contexts provide good parallels for the Langley model. A religious significance is argued for the object: other shield‐models come from Iron A…
Model Objects from Military Areas of Roman Britain
THE purpose of this paper is to bring together, describe and assess the significance of the 40 or so miniature items occurring, for the most part, in or near military installations in Roman Britain and other sites in the North. The compilation of this material was undertaken with the aid of a grant from the British Academy in 1977–1978; the work has entailed visits to about 15 museums mainly in the Hadrian's Wall region, whence the bulk of the ev…
Humans as Ritual Victims in the Later Prehistory of Western Europe
The paper presented here addresses the issue of how far current evidence permits the admittance of ritual murder or human sacrifice in the European Iron Age. It argues from two basic premises: firstly that the notion of human sacrifice is the more acceptable within the context of strictly hierarchical, slave‐owning societies for whom human life was not, of itself, sacrosanct; secondly that, since there is a solid body of both literary and archaeo…
The Celtic World
The Celtic World is a detailed and comprehensive study of the Celts from the first evidence of them in the archaeological and historical record to the early post-Roman period. The strength of this volume lies in its breadth - it looks at archaeology, language, literature, towns, warfare, rural life, art, religion and myth, trade and industry, political organisations, society and technology. The Celtic World draws together material from all over p…
Symbol and Image in Celtic Religious Art
In Symbol and Image in Celtic Religious Art , Miranda Green argues that only by deciphering their complex systems of images and symbols can we uncover the realities of Celtic life and belief in Europe before and during the Roman period. She explores a number of iconographic themes in depth and examines the tribal and regional differences in artistic cult expression to reveal the very varied concepts embraced by anthropomorphic imagery. Discussion…
Crossing the Boundaries
This paper explores one aspect of the way in which cult-iconography of the later Iron Age and Roman periods in non-Classical Europe broke the rules of mimetic (life-copying) representation, with, reference to a particular motif: the triple horn. The presence of three-horned images within the iconographic repertoire of western Europe during this period clearly illustrates two aspects of such rule-breaking. On the one hand, the image of the triple-…
The British Celts and Their Gods under Rome
Model Objects from Military Areas of Roman Britain
THE purpose of this paper is to bring together, describe and assess the significance of the 40 or so miniature items occurring, for the most part, in or near military installations in Roman Britain and other sites in the North. The compilation of this material was undertaken with the aid of a grant from the British Academy in 1977–1978; the work has entailed visits to about 15 museums mainly in the Hadrian's Wall region, whence the bulk of the ev…
A Votive Model Shield From Langley, Oxfordshire
A miniature bronze oval shield was discovered probably in 1982 at Potters Hill Farm, Langley. The type of shield would accord well with a late Iron Age date, though full‐size shields of this general form continued in use until after the Roman conquest. A number of other pre‐Roman model shields from British contexts provide good parallels for the Langley model. A religious significance is argued for the object: other shield‐models come from Iron A…
Model Objects from Military Areas of Roman Britain
THE purpose of this paper is to bring together, describe and assess the significance of the 40 or so miniature items occurring, for the most part, in or near military installations in Roman Britain and other sites in the North. The compilation of this material was undertaken with the aid of a grant from the British Academy in 1977–1978; the work has entailed visits to about 15 museums mainly in the Hadrian's Wall region, whence the bulk of the ev…
A Votive Model Shield From Langley, Oxfordshire
A miniature bronze oval shield was discovered probably in 1982 at Potters Hill Farm, Langley. The type of shield would accord well with a late Iron Age date, though full‐size shields of this general form continued in use until after the Roman conquest. A number of other pre‐Roman model shields from British contexts provide good parallels for the Langley model. A religious significance is argued for the object: other shield‐models come from Iron A…
The British Celts and Their Gods under Rome
Humans as Ritual Victims in the Later Prehistory of Western Europe
The paper presented here addresses the issue of how far current evidence permits the admittance of ritual murder or human sacrifice in the European Iron Age. It argues from two basic premises: firstly that the notion of human sacrifice is the more acceptable within the context of strictly hierarchical, slave‐owning societies for whom human life was not, of itself, sacrosanct; secondly that, since there is a solid body of both literary and archaeo…
Crossing the Boundaries
This paper explores one aspect of the way in which cult-iconography of the later Iron Age and Roman periods in non-Classical Europe broke the rules of mimetic (life-copying) representation, with, reference to a particular motif: the triple horn. The presence of three-horned images within the iconographic repertoire of western Europe during this period clearly illustrates two aspects of such rule-breaking. On the one hand, the image of the triple-…
Celtic Goddesses
Women in Celtic society goddesses of war the divine female in Welsh myth sovereignty, sexuality and the Otherworld in Irish myth water-goddesses, healers and mothers love, marriage and partnership priestess, prophet, witch mistress of beasts from goddess to saint
Symbol and Image in Celtic Religious Art
In Symbol and Image in Celtic Religious Art , Miranda Green argues that only by deciphering their complex systems of images and symbols can we uncover the realities of Celtic life and belief in Europe before and during the Roman period. She explores a number of iconographic themes in depth and examines the tribal and regional differences in artistic cult expression to reveal the very varied concepts embraced by anthropomorphic imagery. Discussion…
The Celtic World
The Celtic World is a detailed and comprehensive study of the Celts from the first evidence of them in the archaeological and historical record to the early post-Roman period. The strength of this volume lies in its breadth - it looks at archaeology, language, literature, towns, warfare, rural life, art, religion and myth, trade and industry, political organisations, society and technology. The Celtic World draws together material from all over p…
Ancient history (8 works) · History (8 works) · History (7 works) · Archaeology (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Studies (4 works) · Art history (3 works) · Celtic languages (3 works) · Classical Antiquity Studies (3 works) · Historical and Architectural Studies (3 works)