The Grail. from Celtic Myth to Christian Symbol / / 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.
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Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1963] ©1963 |
Year of Publication: | 1963 |
Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- 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