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The Virgin and the Grail : origins of a legend

Title: The Virgin and the Grail : origins of a legend / Joseph Goering.
Author: Goering, Joseph, 1947-
Publication: New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, [2005], ©2005.

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xii, 188 pages : illustrations (some color); 22 cm

Summary

"Some fifty years before Chretien de Troyes wrote what is probably the first and certainly the most influential story of the Holy Grail, images of the Virgin Mary with a simple but radiant bowl (called a "grail" in the local dialect) appeared in churches in the Spanish Pyrenees. In this book, Joseph Goering explores the links between these sacred images and the origins of one of the West's most enduring legends."--BOOK JACKET.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [159]-181) and index.

Contents

Pt. I. From romance to history -- Ch. 1. Chretien de Troyes : Perceval or the Conte du Graal -- Ch. 2. Wolfram von Eschenbach : Parzival -- Ch. 3. Robert de Boron : Joseph d'Arimathie (La grant estoire dou graal) -- Ch. 4. Helinand of Froidmont -- Pt. II. Before romance : the Virgin and the Grail in the Pyrenees -- Ch. 5. The bishop of Roda/Barbastre and the churches of Taull -- Ch. 6. The master of St. Clement -- Ch. 7. The Virgin and the Grail in the Pyrenees -- Pt. III. The historian's quest -- Ch. 8. Perceval and the Grail.

ISBN

0300106610 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2004020946

OCLC

ocm56560675
SCSB-5181351

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Columbia University Libraries