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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... Hallstatt in Austria , Hallstatt culture , from the eighth to the first quarter of the fifth century BC , is the earliest phase of the European Iron Age and the first phase of Celtic culture . ' Hallstatt D , roughly its last century or ...
... Hallstatt in Austria , Hallstatt culture , from the eighth to the first quarter of the fifth century BC , is the earliest phase of the European Iron Age and the first phase of Celtic culture . ' Hallstatt D , roughly its last century or ...
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... Hallstatt world came to a turbulent finish not long after 500 BC . The princely courts were plundered and from Burgundy to Bohemia the aristo- cratic practice of burial under a tumulus ceased . Hallstatt was now replaced by the vigorous ...
... Hallstatt world came to a turbulent finish not long after 500 BC . The princely courts were plundered and from Burgundy to Bohemia the aristo- cratic practice of burial under a tumulus ceased . Hallstatt was now replaced by the vigorous ...
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... Hallstatt period often depict musical and drinking scenes where women appear as the bearer of cups and bowls . " 10 If we then move forward into the Early Middle Ages , we find the same equation to be true since Celtic and Germanic ...
... Hallstatt period often depict musical and drinking scenes where women appear as the bearer of cups and bowls . " 10 If we then move forward into the Early Middle Ages , we find the same equation to be true since Celtic and Germanic ...
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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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