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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... Germania , Tacitus lays great stress on the importance of individual reputation among the tribes of central Europe and indicates elsewhere that it is the reputa- tion of warlords which often attract followers . If kings are chosen in ...
... Germania , Tacitus lays great stress on the importance of individual reputation among the tribes of central Europe and indicates elsewhere that it is the reputa- tion of warlords which often attract followers . If kings are chosen in ...
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... Germania Inferior certainly encouraged a wide mixture of cults . B.H. Stolte made the following remarks : The population of Germania Inferior was not homogeneous ; aside from Celtic and Germanic elements one must also reckon with a pre ...
... Germania Inferior certainly encouraged a wide mixture of cults . B.H. Stolte made the following remarks : The population of Germania Inferior was not homogeneous ; aside from Celtic and Germanic elements one must also reckon with a pre ...
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... Germania " . In Beiträge zum Verstandnis der Germania des Tacitus I , eds . Herbert Jankuhn and Dieter Timpe , pp . 106–28 . Göttingen , 1989 . - " Entdeckungsgeschichte " . Reallexikon 7 ( 1989 ) : 307-89 . - " Der Sueben - Begriff bei ...
... Germania " . In Beiträge zum Verstandnis der Germania des Tacitus I , eds . Herbert Jankuhn and Dieter Timpe , pp . 106–28 . Göttingen , 1989 . - " Entdeckungsgeschichte " . Reallexikon 7 ( 1989 ) : 307-89 . - " Der Sueben - Begriff bei ...
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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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