Lady with a Mead Cup: Ritual, prophecy and lordship in the European warband from La Tene to the Viking Age
by Michael J. Enright
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Now available in paperback, 'Lady 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, show more Professor Enright has produced the first work in English on the warband and on the significance of barbarian drinking rituals. show lessTags
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- Original publication date
- 1996
- Dedication
- For my parents, Michael and Esther Enright.
And in loving memory of "gran", Patrick Kenneally,
and of "daw", Madge Mac Mahon,
in her wonderful "little house under the hill". - First words
- This book grew slowly, nolens volens, because I set out to write a different one. (Preface)
Both the political activities of Germanic queens and the lifestyle of the Germanic warband or comitatus are subjects which have often attracted scholarly attention. - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Stated somewhat paradoxically but no less meaningfully, early medieval culture begins with La Tene.
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- Genres
- Nonfiction, History, Religion & Spirituality, Anthropology, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 940.1 — History & geography History of Europe History of Europe Europe in the Middle Ages
- LCC
- CB213 .E57 — Auxiliary Sciences of History History of Civilization History of Civilization Civilization and race
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- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper
- ISBNs
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