Fercan - Fontes epigraphici religionum celticarum antiquarum

13/10/2024

12th-13th September: a successful two-day conference on Celtic religions and myths between Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages: persistence, change, loss of knowledge, remembrance, resonance....
Thanks to my co-organisers Jonathan Wooding and Simon Rodway, and thanks to Aberystwyth University for hosting the event. And thanks to all our speakers for their interesting contributions...

20/09/2023

New paper on the cult of Nehalennia by Audrey Ferlut in 'Religion and Urbanity Online'.

In Zeeland, at the border area between Lower Germany and Gallia Belgica, two exceptional rural sanctuaries have been discovered that were not only frequented by urban dwellers from the far-away cities of Cologne, Trier and even Augst, but these devotees also seem to shape the nature of the cult acti...

20/09/2023

New article on the goddess Nehalennia by Audrey Ferlut just published in 'Religion and Urbanity Online' (open access publication).

In Zeeland, at the border area between Lower Germany and Gallia Belgica, two exceptional rural sanctuaries have been discovered that were not only frequented by urban dwellers from the far-away cities of Cologne, Trier and even Augst, but these devotees also seem to shape the nature of the cult acti...

25/02/2023

Finally! Lots of papers on 'Celtic religion(s)', for example by Isabelle Fauduet, Francisco Marco, Patrizia de Bernardo Stempel, Tony King, and many more!

“Look what the postman brought today! The new book edited by and Anthony King”

27/01/2023

Our new book on 'Religious Individualisation' which includes many papers on Celtic / Romano-Celtic deities, their cults, dedications and iconography. Should be out 15th February at the latest...

Is it possible to look into the mind and experiences of an individual in Roman times?
This volume turns to the, often overlooked, religious diversity of Ancient Rome to provide case studies to help answer this and many other questions. Find out more: http://bit.ly/3ZWu7vx

17/06/2022

Old gods in a new sacred landscapes?
Lots of discussion and food for thought - I hope - on the 'Celticity' of the deities in eastern Gaul in this paper, incl. the various Jupitergigantenreiter/Jupiter à l'anguipède, Jupiter & Juno, Mercury & Rosmerta, Vulcanus & Venus, Loucetius, Camulus, Epona, and many more across the Civitas Vangionum which of course includes Eisenberg, Alzey, Landstuhl, Altrip, Bingen and Kreuznach😉.
The paper is from 2008, based on a conference presentation at the Roman Archaeology Conference in Birmingham in 2005.
Enjoy! And hurry up downloading it before it gets taken down😉😉😉

The aim of this paper is twofold: it provides an overview of the cults and the cult geography of the civitasVangionum; secondly, it experiments with inserting the evidence into a reconstructed 'Celtic' myth in order to explore its

10/06/2022

Nice little Gallo-Roman sanctuary excavated near Rennes. See Inrap page for more details:

Les archéologues de l’Inrap fouillent actuellement, sur prescription de l’État (Drac Bretagne), plus de 7 hectares à la Chapelle-des-Fougeretz. Le chantier, qui se poursuivra jusqu’en octobre 2022, met en évidence un important sanctuaire gallo-romain.