A comprehensive A-Z encyclopedia of the important figures, peoples, places, themes issues and events of Britain and Ireland from the Neolithic period to AD 1154.
Christopher A. Snyder is Associate Professor of European History and Chair of the Department of History and Politics at Marymount University, Arlington, Virginia. His many books include: The Britons (2003), The World of King Arthur (2000), and An Age of Tyrants: Britain and the Britons, AD 400-600 (1998).
This set is recommended to academic and public libraries needing
reference material on the early history of the British Isles.
*ARBA*
This encyclopedia seems to be unique in its coverage of anything
British or Irish from around the Stone Age to 1154, the beginning
of the Plantagenet reign in Britain. … Though the encyclopedia
overlaps with Medieval England: An Encyclopedia (1998) and Medieval
Ireland: An Encyclopedia (2005), both published by Garland, it has
a different chronological range. Moreover, it offers another
perspective by examining both Britain and Ireland together.
Recommended for academic and large public libraries.
*Booklist*
… [O]ffers another perspective by examining both Britain and
Ireland together. Recommended for academic and large libraries.
*Booklist*
…[M]arshalling over 500 alphabetical entries by 62 contributors,
about half of them American, the other half British (many from
Lampeter University), with a smattering of Dutch Irish and
Canadian… there are good individual entries for example Aidan
O'Sullivan's long entry on prehistoric and early medieval houses,
or good summaries, for example by John Collins on aspects of the
Iron Age. Commendable as it is to take the long view and expose
student[s] to early historic periods to prehistory.
*New Book Chronicle*
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