Questions about Celtic History

[Marie Louise von Preussen]

Hi,

I would like to know if there's a good book on Celtic military history, which tells about Celtic warfare in an unbiased and historically accurate fashion.

I would also like to know if there's any good Grammar of reconstructed Gaulish, Brythonic or Lepontic.

[Genava]

Hi,

I would like to know if there's a good book on Celtic military history, which tells about Celtic warfare in an unbiased and historically accurate fashion.

I don't think there is something interesting in english. The osprey books wrote by Stephen Allen and Peter Wilcox are quite old and doesn't give you a proper overview of the actual knowledge on the subject. Moreover they are mixing everything, using items from the mainland and from the British Isles without any distinctions or warnings. The illustrations are among the with anachronistic mixing of the weapons from diverse regions and from a timeline of 5 centuries. The problem of their authors is that they believe the Celtic warfare is a monolithic block without any evolution neither in technology or in strategy.

Another problem is the language barrier. English-speaking peoples are generally not interested in reading "baguette language" and prefer to make fun of it, even if most of the accurate information are in French. It is a problem even for academic expert like Barry Cunliffe, who almost never quotes French literature in his works. However it is starting to change with new generations of scientists with an open-mind. Same problem in the other side of the barrier, French peoples aren't very good in English, especially older generations. And European archaeology is always something that is self-centered on the national culture of the discovery places. Therefore, there is almost nothing that is translated in English.

In French, you can look for Jean-Louis Brunaux books; Guerre et armement chez les Gaulois (450-52 av. J.-C.) and Guerre et religion en Gaule. Essai d'anthropologie celtique

There is also the books of Franck Mathieu, a re-enactor with credible references (like his work for Muséoparc Alésia). Les guerriers celtes and Le guerrier gaulois : Du Hallstatt à la conquête romaine. He has a facebook page about his material works re-enacted, Archéoart.

I would also like to know if there's any good Grammar of reconstructed Gaulish, Brythonic or Lepontic.

You can start with the book of Paul Russell, An Introduction to the Celtic Languages. And the online PDF of Blažek Václav on the Gaulish language.

[Rad]

English-speaking peoples are generally not interested in reading "baguette language" and prefer to make fun of it, even if most of the accurate information are in French.

This is me, right? HEHEHEHEHEHEHE
To be fair, I am not mocking the language. I just don't have the will and reason to learn it.
Get all that good translated.

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

Now, 9gag... 9gag is mocking the hell out if it.
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[Marie Louise von Preussen]

Hi, thanks for all the tips!

Hi Genava, thank you for your extensive recommendations.

Another problem is the language barrier. English-speaking peoples are generally not interested in reading "baguette language" and prefer to make fun of it

Yes, it used to be different from the 18th century up to World War 2.