The Grail. from Celtic Myth to Christian Symbol / / Roger Sherman Loomis.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter CUP eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub)
• VerfasserIn: Loomis, Roger Sherman,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1963]; ©1963
• Year of Publication: 1963
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Preface --; Table of Contents --; List of Illustrations --; I. The Chief Romances of the Grail: a Preview --; II. The Origins and Growth of Arthurian Romance --; III. Celtic Myths, their Mutations and Combinations --; IV. The First Grail Story, the Conte del Graal of Chrétien de Troyes --; V. The Grail Bearer, the Question Test, and the Fisher King --; VI. The First Sequel to the Conte del Graal: the Corpse on the Bier and the Broken Sword --; VII. Irish Echtrai: the Waste Land and the Bleeding Lance --; VIII. Manessier's Sequel and Peredur: the Mission of Revenge --; IX. Perlesvaus: Welsh Talismans and a Welsh Elysium --; X. Sone de Natisai and the Mabinogi of Branwen --; XI. The Prose Lancelot: Combat and Scandal in the Castle of King Pelles --; XII. The Queste del Saint Graal: Celtic Story- Patterns in Cistercian Allegory --; XIII. Parzival, the Spiritual Biography of a Knight --; XIV. Joseph of Arimathea, an Evangelist by Error --; XV. Glastonbury, School of Forgery and Isle of Avalon --; XVI. The End of the Quest --; Appendixes --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780231894234; 9783110442489
• DOI: 10.7312/loom93544
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Roger Sherman Loomis.

Brings together results of scholarship such as the publications of Nutt, Pauphilet, and Robinson to put them into a comprehensive theory which would explain the complex fabric of the Grail Legend.