This lavishly illustrated volume of 224 pages contains eleven chapters divided into four parts: Part I: Out of the Mist; Part II: The Warrior and his World; Part III: The Eagle and the Raven; and Part IV: Twilight. With a combination of color pictures and maps adorning nearly every page this is perhaps one of the most handsome recent publications on the Celtic World, albeit with more focused at...

T he modern Olympic Games were founded by Baron Pierre de Coubertin in 1896, with the intention of improving health and education, promoting world peace, and encouraging fair and equal competition. Such Victorian values, although inherently ennobling have little resonance in modern sport. The motto of the modern Olympic games—Citius, Altius, Fortius (swifter, higher, stronger)—illustrates how w...

We examine a stark setting in which security or protection can be provided by self-governing groups or by for-pro...t enterpreneurs (kings, lords, or ma...a dons). Though self-governance is best for the population, it faces problems of long-term viability. Typically, in providing security the equilibrium market structure involves competing lords, a condition that leads to a tragedy of coercion:...