The Grail. from Celtic Myth to Christian Symbol /

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

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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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter CUP eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub)
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Loomis, Roger Sherman,
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

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