What books have you bought lately?

Partly to share titles, partly to get more people talking...

Books that arrived in my house this week: Portmahomack Monastery of the Picts by Martin Carver, Anglo-Saxon Weapons & Warfare by Richard Underwood,Excavations alongside Roman Ermin Street, Gloustershire and Wiltshire by Andrew Mudd.

What have you bought lately?

Can Seo; and
Witchcraft and belief in Early Modern Scotland (Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic) by Julian Goodare.

The Picts A History by Tim Clarkson

>3 gwernin:
Your touchstone goes to The Age of the Picts (which is a good book). Here's The Picts: A History.

Ah, thanks for the correction! Agree about AotP. I wonder why the touchstone linked to the wrong book? (There was no hyphen in the title on the physical book, neither on the cover nor on the title page, while the half-title page says merely "The Picts" - publishers!) :)

Recent Celtic acquisitions include The Festival of Lughnasa: A Study of the Survival of the Celtic Festival of the Beginning of Harvest by Maire MacNeill, People of Orkney by Howie Firth, and Ireland and the Grail by John Carey. (Working for a college, and thus having unlimited access to ILL, is a wonderful thing – lets me determine which ones I *really* want/need to add to the collection.)

After seeing Rowntree's copy, I've also ordered Ireland and the Grail.

A week or so before that, The Saint Andrews Sarcophagus: A Pictish Masterpiece and its International Connections, currently (or at least then) on half-price sale at David Brown.

a link for the St Andrews book since the touchstone doesn't work...

"The Druids" by Stuart Piggott.

Received: The Sacred Places of Wales by Peter Williams - interesting little guidebook that mixes ancient, medieval and modern sites.

spoken word cd's: Detholiad o Hoff Gerddi Cymru, a collection of favorite Welsh poems, and
Lleuad yn olau, traditional welsh stories for children.

Ordered: A corpus of late Celtic hanging bowls: with an account of the bowls found in Scandanavia by Rupert Leo Scott Bruce-Mitford, an amazing book now available from David Brown at a greatly reduced price ;-)

The Silver Bough: The Silver Bough: Scottish Folklore and Folk-belief v. 1 by F.Marian McNeill;
The Silver Bough: Local Festivals of Scotland v. 4 by F.Marian McNeill;
Silver Bough: Calendar of Scottish National Festivals - Hallowe'en to Yule by F.Marian McNeill;
The Silver Bough Volume 2 A Calendar Of Scottish National Festivals Candlemas To Harvest Home by F.Marian McNeill;
Celtic Warriors: The Armies of One of the First Great Peoples in Europe by Dáthí Ó Hógáin;
The Folklore of the Scottish Highlands by Anne Ross; and
The Celtic Consciousness by Robert O'Driscoll.

A lot of my book-buying has been Anglo-Saxon references lately, but I also got these:

A New History of Ireland
A corpus of early medieval inscribed stones and stone scultpure in Wales, volumes 1 and 2 (touchstones not working)
Excavations at Tintagel Castle, Cornwall (ditto)
Continental and Mediteranean Imports in Atlantic Britain and Ireland, AD 400-800
Holy Wells: Wales by Phil Cope (wrong touchstone)
From Caledonia to Pictland Scotland to 795

Hmm, more Celtic stuff than I realized ;-)

Recent purchases? I waited a year or more for the Flame of Ireland: Medieval Irish Plainchant, An Office for St. Brigit, by Canty, a Scottish choral group. The CD was finally reissued and I now have a copy. Not a book but the libretto counts. I am awaiting delivery of Brigit of Kildare by Ann Egan.

"Blood and Mistletoe: The History of the Druids" by Ronald Hutton and I look forward to reading it.

"The Festival of Lughnasa: A Study of the Survival of the Celtic Festival of the Beginning of Harvest" by Maire MacNeill.

"Echoes of a Savage Land" by Joe McGowan arrived today.

"Irish Folk Ways" by E. Estyn Evans arrived today.

Today, I received "Celtic Mythology" by Proinsias Mac Cana.

I quite enjoyed Egan's Brigit. It is not polished novel writing, but she attempts to remain faithful to the hagiographical and historical material--much more than can be said for Cindy Thompson or Heather Terrell in their Brigit of Kildare books.

The Destruction of Da Derga's Hostel (Dodo Press);
The Land of the Seal People;
The Fians; and
The Irish Texts Society: Cath Maige Tuired.

Maybe we can get this topic going again!

Giraldus Cambrensis' Expugnatio Hibernica - The last time I read it cover to cover was during my university days, and I'm looking forward to going through it again - and it's always nice to have handy a reference copy for checking footnotes.

Maybe not quite lately, but most recently...
Stonehenge by Francis Pryor
Newgrange: Monument to Immortality by Anthony Murphy
Cerridwen: Celtic Goddess of Inspiration by Kristoffer Hughes (kindle sample, not catalogued)