At the End of the World: Druidic and Other Revitalization Movements in Post-Conquest Gaul and Britain

@article{Webster1999AtTE,
  title={At the End of the World: Druidic and Other Revitalization Movements in Post-Conquest Gaul and Britain},
  author={Janet Webster},
  journal={Britannia},
  year={1999},
  volume={30},
  pages={1 - 20},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:162214983}
}
This article is in part a response to a plea recently presented in this journal that the long-neglected druids be more fully acknowledged in our narratives of the Later Iron Age. It is also an attempt to give voice to an important, but frequently marginalized, example of discrepant indigenous experience in Rome's Western provinces. In his discussion of the function of the druids in Later Iron Age Gaul and Britain, Creighton has argued that the influence of this social group was in decline by… 
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