Contents

pp v-vi

Acknowledgements

pp vii-vii

The Contributors

pp viii-viii

Abbreviations

pp ix-ix

A Note on the Lancelot-Grail Cycle

pp x-x

Introduction

pp xi-xiv

Part I - The Lancelot-Grail Cycle in Context

pp 1-2

1 - Chivalry, Cistercianism and the Grail

pp 3-12

2 - The Making of the Lancelot-Grail Cycle

pp 13-22

3 - A Question of Time: Romance and History

pp 23-32

4 - The Vulgate Cycle and the Post-Vulgate Roman du Graalm

pp 33-52

Part II - The Art of the Lancelot-Grail Cycle

pp 53-54

5 - Interlace and the Cyclic Imagination

pp 55-64

6 - The Gateway to the Lancelot-Grail Cycle: L’Estoire del Saint Graal

pp 65-74

7 - The Merlin and its Suite

pp 75-86

8 - The Book of Lancelot

pp 87-94

9 - Refining the Center: Verse and Prose Charrette

pp 95-106

10 - The Queste del saint Graal: from semblance to veraie semblance

pp 107-114

11 - The Sense of an Ending: La Mort le Roi Artu

pp 115-124

12 - ‘Mise en page’ in the French Lancelot-Grail: The First 150 Years of the Illustrative Tradition

pp 125-144

Part III - Posterity

pp 145-146

13 - The Lancelot-Grail Cycle in England: Malory and his Predecessors

pp 147-162

14 - Lancelot in Italy

pp 163-172

15 - Lancelot in Germany

pp 173-184

16 - The Spanish Lancelot-Grail Heritage

pp 185-194

17 - Neither Sublime nor Gallant: The Portuguese Demanda and the New Destiny of Man

pp 195-204

18 - The Lancelots of the Lowlands

pp 205-218

19 - Manuscripts of the Lancelot-Grail Cycle in England and Wales: Some Books and their Owners

pp 219-236

20 - Towards a Modern Reception of the Lancelot-Grail Cycle

pp 237-254