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Introduction

 

Semiotics analyzes the meanings of the images, as opposed to their artistic merit. A key aspect of this is the propaganda generated by the rulers and the messages they wanted to convey to the people.

The subject is treated in a series of articles published since 2007, now collected here for easy reference. New articles will be added as they become available.

 

The articles are best read in numerical order:

 

1. Semiotics of Celtic Coins I – Ruding's challenge
2. Semiotics of Celtic Coins II – Circumstance Selectors
3. Semiotics of Celtic Coins III – Amalgamation switchers
4. Semiotics of Celtic Coins IV – Extensions into the continuum
5. Semiotics of Celtic Coins V – It's not art
6. Semiotics of Celtic Coins VI – Cunobeline's ship
7. Semiotics of Celtic Coins VII – The search for codes
8. Semiotics of Celtic Coins VIII – Seeing past the die-cutters
9. Semiotics of Celtic Coins IX – The Minefield of Metaphor
10. Semiotics of Celtic Coins X – Inventions, Replicas and Applying the brakes
11. Semiotics of Celtic Coins XI – Producing and Interpreting Replicas
12. Semiotics of Celtic Coins XII – Mapping Replicas
13. Semiotics of Celtic Coins XIII – Identifying and Interpreting Inventions
14. Semiotics of Celtic Coins XIV – Mapping Inventions
15. Semiotics of Celtic Coins XV – People Breaking Things
16. Semiotics of Celtic Coins XVI - Do Borrowed Images Mean Borrowed Messages?
17. Semiotics of Celtic Coins XVII - Tincomarus Rolls the Dice
18. Semiotics of Celtic Coins XVIII – We've Won the War
19. Semiotics of Celtic Coins XIX – Dealing with Demons
20. Semiotics of Celtic Coins XX – Verica Rolls the Dice

 

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