Title: Lady with a mead cup
First published: 1996
Description: 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.
Subjects: Celtic Civilization, Celts, Civilization, Celtic, Civilization, Germanic, Drinking customs, Germanic Civilization, Germanic peoples, History, Religion
Places: Europe
Time periods: 476-1492, To 1500, To 476
LC classification: CB213 .E57 1996