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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... goddess . All of the other hundreds of known bracteates feature divine and non - human figures , as Karl Hauck has shown , so that it is highly unlikely that these are exceptions . The presence of spindle whorl and cloth in the ...
... goddess . All of the other hundreds of known bracteates feature divine and non - human figures , as Karl Hauck has shown , so that it is highly unlikely that these are exceptions . The presence of spindle whorl and cloth in the ...
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... goddess and a prophetess who possesses the power to grant kingship . " She normally appears in tales that involve conflict over tribal rule . A prominent motif in many of these is a hunt for a doe or deer . The deer is the goddesses ...
... goddess and a prophetess who possesses the power to grant kingship . " She normally appears in tales that involve conflict over tribal rule . A prominent motif in many of these is a hunt for a doe or deer . The deer is the goddesses ...
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... goddess Epona , for example , are universally recognized as having their clearest reflection and explanation in insular texts . " Most important for the present argument , however , is the goddess Rosmerta who has no place in a ...
... goddess Epona , for example , are universally recognized as having their clearest reflection and explanation in insular texts . " Most important for the present argument , however , is the goddess Rosmerta who has no place in 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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