The Grail : from Celtic myth to Christian symbol /
The medieval legend of the Grail, a tale about the search for supreme mystical experience, has never ceased to intrigue writers and scholars by its wildly variegated forms: the settings have ranged from Britain to the Punjab to the Temple of Zeus at Dodona; the Grail itself has been described as the...
| Основен автор: | Loomis, Roger Sherman, 1887-1966. |
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| Формат: | Книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
c1991
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| Серия: |
Mythos (Princeton, N.J.)
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Съдържание:
- The chief romance of the Grail: a preview
- The origins and growth of Arthurian romance
- Celtic myths, their mutation and combinations
- The first Grail story, the Conte del Graal of Chrétien de Troyes
- The Grail bearer, the question test, and the Fisher King
- The first sequel to the Conte del Graal: the Corpse on the bier and the broken sword
- Irish Echtrai: the waste land and the bleeding lance
- Manessier's sequel and Peredur: the mission of revenge
- Perlesvaus: Welsh talismans and a Welsh Elysium
- Sone de Nansai and the Mabinogi of Branwen
- The prose Lancelot: combat and scandal in the castle of King Pelles
- The Queste del Saint Graal: Celtic story-patterns in Cistercian allegory
- Parzival, the spiritual biography of a knight
- Joseph of Arimathea, an evangelist by error
- Glastonbury, school of forgery and Isle of Avalon
- The end of the quest.