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 113
... appear on the lower right perimeter but they seem unconnected with the goddess and look more like starfish than anything else . No convinced Christian would have depicted them in this way and it appears probable that the craftsman is ...
... appear on the lower right perimeter but they seem unconnected with the goddess and look more like starfish than anything else . No convinced Christian would have depicted them in this way and it appears probable that the craftsman is ...
Page 119
... appears probable that the Christian priest is being presented as her proper substitute in the act of military binding and loosing in the same way as a new kind of Christian royal inauguration ritual will soon thereafter be substituted ...
... appears probable that the Christian priest is being presented as her proper substitute in the act of military binding and loosing in the same way as a new kind of Christian royal inauguration ritual will soon thereafter be substituted ...
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... appears on the base of a largely destroyed statue : Mercurio / Hrannoni / Nigrinia / Titula ex / visu monita / l ( ibens ) m ( erito ) . As Norbert Wagner points out , the nominative of Mercurio Hrannoni is Mercurius Hranno , a ...
... appears on the base of a largely destroyed statue : Mercurio / Hrannoni / Nigrinia / Titula ex / visu monita / l ( ibens ) m ( erito ) . As Norbert Wagner points out , the nominative of Mercurio Hrannoni is Mercurius Hranno , a ...
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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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