Guide The Legend of the Grail (Arthurian Studies)

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Robert de Boron portrayed it as the vessel of the Last Supper. There is no historical evidence linking the Templars to a search for the Grail, but subsequent writers have elaborated on the Templar theories. The story of the Wounded King's mystical fasting is not unique; several saints were said to have lived without food besides communion, for instance Saint Catherine of Genoa. Glastonbury was associated with King Arthur and his resting place of Avalon by the 12th century. The Virgin and the Grail:

The quest for the Holy Grail is one of the most important elements in the story of King Arthur. Yet even among the many interested in the stories of the Round Table, very few have read at first hand the medieval masterpieces which over a period of some forty years, in the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries, together became the foundation of the legend of the Grail.

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These romances, full of bewildering contradictions and composed by a number of different writers with very different preoccupations, dazzle with the sheer wealth of their conflicting imaginative detail. In this new compilation, the enthralling material becomes truly accessible through his interweaving of the principal motifs and narrative strands of all the original Grail romances to construct a single, consistent version of the Grail story, while clearly tracing the development of its enigmatic and potent theme.

All the mystery and drama of the Arthurian world are embodied in the extraordinary adventures of Perceval, Gawain, Lancelot and Galahad in their pursuit of the Grail. Told here as a unified, coherent narrative, the Grail legend reasserts its relevance as one of the great works of imaginative literature of the middle ages. Read more Read less. Customers who viewed this item also viewed. Page 1 of 1 Start over Page 1 of 1. Merlin and the Grail: Joseph of Arimathea, Merlin, Perceval: Review Part ripping yarn and part religious myth, re-told in a seemingly seamless narrative with verve and panache, true to its sources but eminently accessible to a modern audience.

Arthurian Studies Book 58 Hardcover: In the modern era, a number of places have become associated with the Holy Grail. One of the most prominent is Glastonbury in Somerset , England. Glastonbury was associated with King Arthur and his resting place of Avalon by the 12th century. Early accounts of Joseph at Glastonbury focus on his role as the evangelist of Britain rather than as the custodian of the Holy Grail, but from the 15th century, the Grail became a more prominent part of the legends surrounding Glastonbury.

Similarly, the 14th-century Rosslyn Chapel in Midlothian , Scotland, became attached to the Grail legend in the midth century when a succession of conspiracy books identified it as a secret hiding place of the Grail.

Since the 19th century, the Holy Grail has been linked to various conspiracy theories. In , Austrian pseudohistorical writer Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall connected the Grail to contemporary myths surrounding the Knights Templar that cast the order as a secret society dedicated to mystical knowledge and relics.

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In Hammer-Purgstall's work, the Grail is not a physical relic but a symbol of secret knowledge that the Templars sought. There is no historical evidence linking the Templars to a search for the Grail, but subsequent writers have elaborated on the Templar theories. Starting in the early 20th century, writers, particularly in France, further connected the Templars and Grail to the Cathars.

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This identification has inspired a wider legend asserting that the Cathars possessed the Holy Grail. Starting in , German writer Otto Rahn published a series of books tying the Grail, Templars, and Cathars to a German nationalist mythology. According to Rahn, the Grail was a symbol of a pure Germanic religion repressed by Christianity. Rahn's books inspired interest in the Grail in Nazi occultism and led to Heinrich Himmler 's abortive sponsorship of Rahn's search for the Grail, as well as many subsequent conspiracy theories and fictional works about the Nazis searching for the Grail. In the late 20th century, British writers Michael Baigent , Richard Leigh and Henry Lincoln created one of the most widely known conspiracy theories about the Holy Grail.

The theory first appeared in the BBC documentary series Chronicle in the s, and was elaborated upon in the bestselling book Holy Blood, Holy Grail. According to this theory, the Holy Grail is not a physical object, but a symbol of the bloodline of Jesus. The blood connection is based on the etymology reading san greal holy grail as sang real royal blood , which dates to the 15th century. While the Catholic Church worked to destroy the dynasty, they were protected by the Priory of Sion and their associates, including the Templars, Cathars, and other secret societies.

The combination of hushed reverence, chromatic harmonies and sexualized imagery in Richard Wagner 's final music drama Parsifal , premiered in , developed this theme, associating the grail — now periodically producing blood — directly with female fertility.

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A major mural series depicting the Quest for the Holy Grail was done by the artist Edwin Austin Abbey during the first decade of the 20th century for the Boston Public Library. Other artists, including George Frederic Watts [60] and William Dyce , also portrayed grail subjects. The story of the Grail and of the quest to find it became increasingly popular in the 19th century, referred to in literature such as Alfred, Lord Tennyson 's Arthurian cycle the Idylls of the King.

A sexualised interpretation of the grail, now identified with female genitalia, appeared in in Hargrave Jennings ' book The Rosicrucians, Their Rites and Mysteries.

In the cinema, the Holy Grail debuted in the silent film Parsifal. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. For other uses, see Holy Grail disambiguation.

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For the drinking vessel used at the Last Supper according to legend and sometimes conflated with the Holy Grail, see Holy Chalice. For other uses, see Grail disambiguation and Grail Quest disambiguation. Retrieved December 18, An etymological dictionary of the Romance languages , Williams and Norgate, , p. To the Memory OF J.

Description of the leading forms of the Romance: The legend formed of two portions: Early History of Grail, Quest—Two forms of each portion distinguished—Grouping of the various versions—Alternative hypotheses of development—Their bearing upon the alleged Celtic origin of the Grail—Closer examination of the various accounts of the Grail: The first use made of it and its first possessor; its solace of Joseph; its properties and the effect produced by it; its name; its arrival in England; the Grail-keeper and his relationship to the Promised Knight—Three different stages in the development of the Queste—The work and the qualification of the Promised Knight—Conclusions: Priority over Early History of Quest—Chronological arrangement of the versions.

Relationship of the Didot-Perceval to the Conte du Graal—The former not the source of the latter—Relationship of the Conte du Graal and the Mabinogi—Instances in which the Mabinogi has copied Chrestien—Examples of its independence—The incident of the blood drops in the snow—Differences between the two works—The machinery of the Mabinogi and the traces of it in the Conte du Graal—The stag hunt—The Mabinogi and Manessier—The sources of the Conte du Graal and the relation of the various parts to a common original—Sir Perceval—Steinbach's theory—Objections to it—The counsels in the Conte du Graal—Wolfram and the Mabinogi—Absence of the Grail from the apparently oldest Celtic form.

Conte du Graal explanation late; explanation from the Fionn Saga—Comparison of incident with geasa ; nature of latter; references to it in Celtic folk-tales and in old Irish literature, Book of Rights, Diarmaid, Cuchulainn— Geasa and taboo. Summing up of the elements of the older portion of the cycle—Parallelism with Celtic tradition—The Christian element in the cycle: Public domain Public domain false false.