Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Notes on Contributors
- Foreword
- Introduction: Arthur and/or the Grail
- 2 The Shape of the Grail in Medieval Art
- 3 The Crusaders' Grail
- 4 Bounds of Imagination: Grail Questing and Chivalric Colonizing in Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival
- 5 The Land without the Grail: A Note on Occitania, Rigaut de Barbezieux and Literary History
- 6 Female Desire and the Quest in the Icelandic Legend of Tristram and Ísodd
- 7 Questing in the Middle Dutch Lancelot Compilation
- 8 Keeping Company: Manuscript Contexts for Reading Arthurian Quest Narratives
- 9 Grail and Quest in the Medieval English World of Arthur
- 10 Malory and the Grail: The Importance of Detail
- 11 Glastonbury, the Grail-Bearer and the Sixteenth-Century Antiquaries
- 12 The Grail Quest: Where Next?
- Appendix: The Grail on Film
- Index
- Analysis of grail scenes
- Arthurian Studies
Notes on Contributors
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 February 2013
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Notes on Contributors
- Foreword
- Introduction: Arthur and/or the Grail
- 2 The Shape of the Grail in Medieval Art
- 3 The Crusaders' Grail
- 4 Bounds of Imagination: Grail Questing and Chivalric Colonizing in Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival
- 5 The Land without the Grail: A Note on Occitania, Rigaut de Barbezieux and Literary History
- 6 Female Desire and the Quest in the Icelandic Legend of Tristram and Ísodd
- 7 Questing in the Middle Dutch Lancelot Compilation
- 8 Keeping Company: Manuscript Contexts for Reading Arthurian Quest Narratives
- 9 Grail and Quest in the Medieval English World of Arthur
- 10 Malory and the Grail: The Importance of Detail
- 11 Glastonbury, the Grail-Bearer and the Sixteenth-Century Antiquaries
- 12 The Grail Quest: Where Next?
- Appendix: The Grail on Film
- Index
- Analysis of grail scenes
- Arthurian Studies
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- Chapter
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- The Grail, the Quest, and the World of Arthur , pp. xi - xivPublisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2008