CONTENTS

PROLOGUE: Introducing a Sacred Isle

CHAPTER ONE The Druids: Priesthood, power and politics

CHAPTER TWO Foreign Conquest and Shifting Identities: New cults and old traditions

CHAPTER THREE Marching as to War: Religion and the Roman army

CHAPTER FOUR Town and Country: Urban devotions and rural rituals

CHAPTER FIVE Cosmology in Roman Britain: Sky, earth and water

CHAPTER SIX Gut-Gazers and God-Users: Divination, curing and cursing

CHAPTER SEVEN Subverting Symbols: Heads, horns and seeing triple

CHAPTER EIGHT Candles in the Dark and Spice from the Orient: Mystery cults

CHAPTER NINE The Coming of Christ: From many gods to one

CHAPTER TEN Journey into Avernus: Death, burial and perceptions of afterlife

CHAPTER ELEVEN Worshipping Together: Acceptance, integration and antagonism

EPILOGUE: Closing the Curtain: Reflecting on things past

Notes

Bibliography

Acknowledgments

Picture Credits

Index