Some here may be interested in this forthcoming title (May 2009)
All the best
Chris
http://www.boydell.co.uk/4383457X.HTM
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Celtic Curses *
* Bernard Mees
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*The first comprehensive study of early Celtic cursing, this work
analyses both medieval and ancient expressions of Celtic imprecation:
from the binding tablets of ancient Britain and Gaul to the saintly
maledictions of the early medieval period, and other traces of Celtic
stipulation and binding only speculated on in earlier scholarship. It
provides the first full overview and analyses of the ancient Celtic use
of binding curses [as attested in Old Celtic and Latin inscriptions] and
examines their mooted influence in later medieval expressions. Ancient
finds [among them long Gaulish curse texts, Celtic Latin Curse tablets
found from the Alpine regions to Britain, and fragments of Old Brittonic
tablets excavated from Roman Bath] are subjected to rigorous new
interpretations, and medieval reflections of the earlier tradition are
also considered.
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