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The Grail, the quest and the world of Arthur /

"Exploring French, Dutch, Norse, German and English texts, literary scholars and art historians discuss medieval quest themes, especially but not exclusively the quest for the Holy Grail. A number of the essays trace the relationship, often negative, between Arthurian chivalry and the Grail eth...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Lacy, Norris J.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Woodbridge, Suffolk ; Rochester, NY : D.S. Brewer, 2008.
Colección:Arthurian studies ; 72.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Arthur and / or the Grail / Norris J. Lacy
  • The shape of the Grail in medieval art / Martine Meuwese
  • The crusader's Grail / Antonio L. Furtado
  • Bounds of imagination : Grail questing and chivalric colonizing in Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival / Will Hasty
  • The land without the Grail : a note on Occitania, Rigaut de Barbezieux and literary history / Richard Trachsler
  • Female desire and the quest in Icelandic legend of Tristram and Ísodd / Marianne E. Kalinke
  • Questing in the Middle Dutch Lancelot compilation / David F. Johnson
  • Keeping company : manuscript contexts for reading Arthurian quest narratives / Caroline D. Eckhardt
  • Grail and quest in the medieval English world of Arthur / Phillip Boardman
  • Malory and the Grail : the importance of detail / P.J.C. Field
  • Glastonbury, the Grail-bearer and the sixteenth-century antiquaries / James P. Carley
  • The Grail quest : where next? / Richard Barber
  • Appendix : The Grail on film / Kevin J. Harty.