Lady with a Mead Cup: Ritual, Prophecy, and Lordship in the European Warband from La Tène to the Viking Age

Voorkant
Portland, OR, 1996 - 340 pagina's
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, 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.

Vanuit het boek

Inhoudsopgave

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
Copyright

4 andere gedeelten niet getoond

Overige edities - Alles bekijken

Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen

Bibliografische gegevens