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At the End of the World: Druidic and Other Revitalization Movements in Post-Conquest Gaul and Britain*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 November 2011

Jane Webster
Jane Webster
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School of Archaeological Studies, University of Leicester
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This article is in part a response to a plea recently presented in this journal that the long-neglected druids be more fully acknowledged in our narratives of the Later Iron Age. It is also an attempt to give voice to an important, but frequently marginalized, example of discrepant indigenous experience in Rome's Western provinces.

In his discussion of the function of the druids in Later Iron Age Gaul and Britain, Creighton has argued that the influence of this social group was in decline by the mid-first century B.C. The druids' fortunes waned, he suggests, because their traditional role as mediators between the human and divine worlds came into conflict with emergent new power structures in the first century B.C.

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Britannia , Volume 30 , November 1999 , pp. 1 - 20
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Copyright © Jane Webster 1999. Exclusive Licence to Publish: The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies

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