Lady with a Mead Cup: Ritual, Prophecy, and Lordship in the European Warband from La Tène to the Viking AgeLady with a Mead Cup is a broad-ranging, innovative and strikingly original study of the early medieval barbarian cup-offering ritual and its social, institutional and religious significance. Medievalists are familiar with the image of a queen offering a drink to a king or chieftain and to his retainers, the Wealhtheow scene in Beowulf being perhaps the most famous instance. Drawing on archaeology, anthropology and philology, as well as medieval history, Professor Enright has produced the first work in English on the warband and on the significance of barbarian drinking rituals. Lady with a Mead Cup will be of interest to students of Germanic or Celtic culture and kingship, anthropology and Dark Age religion. |
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Page 143
... Gaulish life as will enable them to follow his story of conquest . " 41 Caesar constantly simplifies the variety and complexity of Gaulish politics , lifestyles and sociological relationships . His usage of the word cliens , “ client ...
... Gaulish life as will enable them to follow his story of conquest . " 41 Caesar constantly simplifies the variety and complexity of Gaulish politics , lifestyles and sociological relationships . His usage of the word cliens , “ client ...
Page 202
... Gaulish word for " king " , which often appears in the names of warlords , cannot easily be explained as due to fashion . The Gaulish word ambaktos ( OHG ambaht ) " servant " , may be even more significant for it was commonly applied ...
... Gaulish word for " king " , which often appears in the names of warlords , cannot easily be explained as due to fashion . The Gaulish word ambaktos ( OHG ambaht ) " servant " , may be even more significant for it was commonly applied ...
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... Gaulish Insubres and of a physician in Britain but no Germanic bearers are known . " Ariovistus was also a " fluent " speaker of Gaulish . When Caesar wished to parlay with him , he sent a young man versed in that tongue . Moreover , of ...
... Gaulish Insubres and of a physician in Britain but no Germanic bearers are known . " Ariovistus was also a " fluent " speaker of Gaulish . When Caesar wished to parlay with him , he sent a young man versed in that tongue . Moreover , of ...
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Ritual Group Cohesion and Hierarchy in the Germanic Warband | 1 |
Warlords Hetzerinnen and Sibyls | 38 |
The Liquor Ritual and the Basis of the Lordly Power to Command | 69 |
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