The quest for the Holy Grail is one of the most important elements in the story of King Arthur. Yet even among the many interested in the stories of the Round Table, very few have read at first hand the medieval masterpieces which, over a period of some forty years in the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries, constructed what might be called the legend of the Grail. The romances, full of bewildering contradictions and composed by a number of different writers in many different languages, overwhelm with the unwieldy nature of the material and their wealth of imaginative detail. This volume interweaves the principal motifs and narrative strands of all the original Grail romances and constructs a single, consistent and accessible version of the Grail story, tracing with clear precision the development of its mysterious and potent theme.
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(M)akes the Grail material accessible to students on several levels, from the undergraduate to the interested professional scholar outside of French medieval studies or Arthurian studies or medieval literature in general. --Medieval Review
An original compilation that ingeniously weaves together several diverse strands of the Grail legend. It is an intriguing, and occasionally surprising, refashioning of the tale and its redactions. It is...a delightful read. --Arthuriana
Part ripping yarn and part religious myth, re-told in a seemingly seamless narrative with verve and panache, true to its sources but eminently accessible to a modern audience. --Pendragon
An original compilation that ingeniously weaves together several diverse strands of the Grail legend. It is an intriguing, and occasionally surprising, refashioning of the tale and its redactions. It is...a delightful read. --Arthuriana
Part ripping yarn and part religious myth, re-told in a seemingly seamless narrative with verve and panache, true to its sources but eminently accessible to a modern audience. --Pendragon
About the Author
NIGEL BRYANT's previous Arthurian books include The High Book of the Grail (Perlesvaus), Chretien de Troyes' Perceval and its Continuations, and Robert de Boron's Merlin and the Grail.
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