The Quest of the Holy Grail

By Comfort, W. W.

Book Id: WPLBN0000634706
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Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	The Quest of the Holy Grail
Author:	Comfort, W. W.
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Language:	English
Subject:	Literature, Literature & thought, Writing.
Collections:	Classic Literature Collection, Blackmask Online Collection
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Publisher:	Blackmask Online


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Description
Preface: The Queste is dated about 1220, a fact which renders its attribution to Gautier Map, who died before 1210, ?fantastic.? As we shall see, it was plainly conceived by someone writing under the influence of the Cistercian Order, and it was intended to be a picture of the victorious Christian life as shown forth to mediaeval humanity by the White Friars. The individual author is unknown. The Queste forms part of a long series of French prose compositions collectively known as the Lancelot?Graal series, arranged in the following order: Estoire du Graal, Merlin, with its continuation, Lancelot, The Queste, and Mort Arthur. The material contained in this series of romances has been preserved in whole or in Part 1n many manuscripts. The Queste, however, is to be distinguished from all the other romances with which it is associated in the manuscript compilations. By its subject it is of course connected superficially with the earlier biographical treatments of Lancelot, who was the central figure of the entire cycle. Further, Robert de Boron had already identified Perceval with the search for the Grail as a holy object of desire. In what, then, consists the apparent originality of the author of the Queste before us?

Table of Contents
Table of Contents: The Quest of the Holy Grail, 1 -- translated by W. W. Comfort, 1 -- Preface, 1 -- Chapter I, 3 -- Chapter II, 15 -- Chapter III, 21 -- Chapter IV, 26 -- Chapter V, 28 -- Chapter VI, 35 -- Chapter VII, 54 -- Chapter VIII, 68 -- Chapter IX, 75 -- Chapter X, 89 -- Chapter XI, 96 -- Chapter XII, 103 -- Chapter XIII, 111 -- Chapter XIV, 112 -- Chapter XV, 119