Stifter, David
(2022)
Review: Filippo Motta, Studi celtici. A cura di Andrea Nuti, Pisa: Pisa University Press 2020.
Studia Celtica Fennica, XVIII.
pp. 1-5.
ISSN 2242-4261
Abstract
This volume is a collection of articles by Filippo Motta, professore di glottologia
e filologia celtica at the Università di Pisa, on the occasion of his retirement.
It assembles twenty-one articles from almost forty years of research. It is
a fundamental issue of honouring collections like this one that much of the
contents may have been overtaken by new insights in the meantime. The earliest
contributions in this volume appeared more than forty years ago, and most are at
least twenty years old. This is at least one academic generation. Even in a small,
seemingly slow-moving discipline such as Celtic Studies, important progress
comes now at the pace of a couple of years, if not months. There is no longer the
comfort of relying on data and its analysis of decades or generations ago. For
that reason, it is often the methodology demonstrated in the contributions in this
volume that is the lasting contribution, while conclusions and results themselves
may have been superseded by newer ones.
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