Nigel Bryant - The Legend of the Grail (2004)

Nigel Bryant - The Legend of the Grail (2004)

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. 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.

Publisher: D.S.Brewer (2004)
ISBN: 1843840065

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