Our Celts and Germans - free course

Myths and Facts about the Celts and Germans will guide you through a unique course.

Aboutthe course: Did you know that the Germanic people were created by Caesar? Are the Czechs really descendants of the Celts? How does looking at the Germanic people as spinach help us? And how come Celtic music doesn't really exist? Do you know that Celtic languages originated in the modern era and Germanic languages only in the 19th century? Why do we still learn a lot of things from textbooks and educational books that haven't been true for many years?

An archaeologist from the Institute of Archaeology of the CAS in Prague and the Department of Archaeology at the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen will help us to shed light on the myths that have been circulating about Celts and Germanics in archaeology, history and linguistics. We will uncover how myths survive and continue to be told that have been outdated for decades, and we will get used to asking the question "And how do we know all this?". Finally, you will also learn why we should write the words Celts and Germanics with lower case letters.

Join our free online course and begin your journey with our Celts and Germanics!

This course is especially for:
Historians, archaeologists, students of history and archaeology, history teachers, history teaching students, philologists and general linguists interested in the origins of Celtic and Germanic languages, Celtic and Germanic scholars and all history lovers.

What will the course bring you?

When you hear or read something about the Celts or the Germanic people and encounter one of the myths about them, you will know it and, with the support of arguments, you will be able to put the information into perspective. Whether it's just to yourself, or to discussants at school, in the pub, on social media...
If they are incredulous and ask how it is possible that it is a myth when it is presented as fact in textbooks, encyclopaedias, on the internet and in academic books, you will be able to explain it to them.

When you hear or read new information (especially related to the Celts and Germanic people, but not only those), you will ask yourself "And how do we know that?" before you accept the information.

Author team. PhDr. Vladimír Salač, CSc.

He deals with the Latin period, the older Roman period, the issue of economy in the youngerPrehistoric period (political economy of this period), the topic of prehistoric settlement pottery as a carrier of information. Recently, he has been focusing on the ethnicity of the prehistoric and early medieval population of Central Europe, the problem of the emergence of ethnicity and the content and transformations of this concept. He presents the results of his work at international conferences, at our and foreign universities, as well as in lectures and publications for the general public. The results of his work have made a significant contribution to European research on the Celts and the Germanics. For his work he received, among other things, the prestigious Reimar Lüst Prize awarded by the German Humboldt Foundation. He currently works in the Prehistoric Department of the Institute of Archaeology of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague and at the Department of Archaeology of the Faculty of Arts of the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen.

The team of the Department of Lifelong and Distance Education of the University of ZČU (Zlata Hokrová, Antonín Hrubý, Veronika Něničková) helped with the preparation and implementation of the course.

Thanks to Daniel Možnar, who took on the role of moderator and guide of the course.

The course Our Celts and Germans was supported by the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen and the research programme Anatomy of European Society within the framework of the Strategy AV21 of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic.

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