Visions of Power: Imagery and Symbols in Late Iron Age Britain
Visions of Power: Imagery and Symbols in Late Iron Age Britain
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权力的愿景：铁器时代晚期英国的意象和符号
作者：
J. Creighton
这篇文章是一篇关于铁器时代晚期权威和权力的一个方面的思辨文章。优秀的叙事讨论了维里卡和库诺贝林政治在英国东南部崛起的政治背景，但在过去的几十年里，德鲁伊在这个故事中的地位被忽视了。然而，德鲁伊确实存在，他们需要被纳入我们对过去的叙述中。随之而来的是关于它们在社会中的性质和作用的讨论，以及它们在罗马被征服之前的几代人发生的大规模社会变革中重要性的下降。这篇文章使用了人种学、历史学、钱币学和考古学的混合证据。
This article is a speculative essay about one aspect of authority and power in the late Iron Age. Excellent narratives exist which discuss the political context of the rise of the polities of Verica and Cunobelin in the South East of Britain, but over the last few decades the place of druids in this story has been neglected. However druids did exist, and they need to be worked into our narratives of the past. What follows leads to a discussion of their nature and function in society, and of their decline in importance during the large-scale social changes which took place in the generations immediately preceding the Roman conquest. The article uses a mixture of ethnographic, historical, numismatic, and archaeological evidence.