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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... comitatus itself . This being the case , a further and more complete exploration of the cultural background of the comi- tatus and the origins of warband religion seemed necessary . Investigation of the liquor ritual thus leads to ...
... comitatus itself . This being the case , a further and more complete exploration of the cultural background of the comi- tatus and the origins of warband religion seemed necessary . Investigation of the liquor ritual thus leads to ...
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... comitatus organization which formed the lifestyle that animated so many of the halls of barbarian Europe . Archaeologists frequently find large amounts of broken drinking vessels in and around these halls . As we saw earlier , the multi ...
... comitatus organization which formed the lifestyle that animated so many of the halls of barbarian Europe . Archaeologists frequently find large amounts of broken drinking vessels in and around these halls . As we saw earlier , the multi ...
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... comitatus , on the other hand , recruiting from outside the kin and tribe and often enduring lengthy journeys in hostile territory , must constantly stress a long period of harsh initiation in order to create that pervading sense of ...
... comitatus , on the other hand , recruiting from outside the kin and tribe and often enduring lengthy journeys in hostile territory , must constantly stress a long period of harsh initiation in order to create that pervading sense of ...
Contents
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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