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

by Michael J. Enright

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1846824281
• ISBN13: 9781846824289
• Release Date: June 2013
• Publisher: Four Courts Press
• Length: 356 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.1"