The Grail, the quest and the world of Arthur / edited by Norris J. Lacy.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lacy, Norris J.

Series:

Arthurian studies ; 72.

Arthurian studies, 0261-9814 ; 72

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grail--Legends--History and criticism.

Grail.

Grail--Legends.

Arthurian romances--History and criticism.

Arthurian romances.

Quests (Expeditions) in literature.

Chivalry in literature.

Grail in motion pictures.

Physical Description:

xvii, 214 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Woodbridge, Suffolk ; Rochester, NY : D.S. Brewer, 2008.

Contents:

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 the 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.

Notes:

Includes one fold-out table titled Analysis of Grail scenes.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes filmography: pages [185]-206.

ISBN:

9781843841708

1843841703

OCLC:

209770218