Lady with a mead cup
ritual, prophecy, and lordship in the European warband from La Tène to the Viking Age
by Enright, Michael J.
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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.
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Lady with a mead cup: ritual, prophecy, and lordship in the European warband from La Tène to the Viking Age
1996, Portland, OR, Four Courts Press
in English
1851821880 9781851821884
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 288-335) and index.
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