Norris J. Lacy 
The Grail, the Quest, and the World of Arthur [PDF ebook] 

The idea of the quest, crucial to Arthurian literature, investigated in texts, manuscripts, and film.


The theme of the quest in Arthurian literature – mainly but not exclusively the Grail quest – is explored in the essays presented here, covering French, Dutch, Norse, German, and English texts. A number of the essays trace the relationship, often negative, between Arthurian chivalry and the Grail ethos. Whereas most of the contributors reflect on the popularity of the Grail quest, several examine the comparative rarity of the Grail in certain literatures and define the elaboration of quest motifs severed from the Grail material. An appendix to the volume offers a filmography that includes all the cinematic treatments of the Grail, either as central theme or minor motif.


This book will appeal to students, scholars, and general readers fascinated by the Arthurian and Grail legends.


CONTRIBUTORS: NORRIS J. LACY, ANTONIO FURTADO, WILL HASTY, RICHARD TRACHSLER, MARIANNE E. KALINKE, MARTINE MEUWESE, DAVID F. JOHNSON, PHILLIP BOARDMAN, CAROLINE D. ECKHARDT, P.J.C. FIELD, JAMES P. CARLEY, RICHARD BARBER, KEVIN J. HARTY

Зміст

Foreword – Norris J. Lacy

Introduction: Arthur and/or the Grail – Norris J. Lacy

The Shape of the Grail in Medieval Art – Martine Meuwese

The Crusaders’ 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 Kalinke

Questing in the Middle Dutch
Lancelot Compilation – David F. Johnson

Keeping Company: Manuscript Contexts for Reading Arthurian Quest Narratives – Caroline Eckhardt

Grail and Quest in the Medieval English World of Arthur – Phillip C Boardman

Malory and the Grail: The Importance of Detail – Peter J.C. Field

Glastonbury, the Grail-Bearer and the Sixteenth-Century Antiquaries – James Carley

The Grail Quest: Where Next? – Richard Barber

Appendix: The Grail on Film – Kevin J Harty

Про автора

RICHARD BARBER has had a huge influence on the study of medieval history and literature, as both a writer and a publisher. His first book on the Arthurian legend appeared in 1961, and his major works include The Knight and Chivalry (winner of the Somerset Maugham Award in 1971), Edward Prince of Wales and Aquitaine, The Penguin Guide to Medieval Europe and The Holy Grail: the History of a Legend which was widely praised and was translated into six languages.