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La Queste Del Saint Graal (The Quest of the Holy Grail) from the Old French Lancelot of Yale 229, with Essays, Glossaries, and Notes to the Text
This edition of the Queste del Saint Graal offers researchers, teachers, and students a definitively authentic edition of the thirteenth-century text as a source for narrative, manuscript culture, language, and linguistics. Like La mort le roi Artu, its predecessor in the Brepols Prose Lancelot of Yale 229 series, this volume supports reading, research, and teaching with name and word glossaries, extended notes to the text, an introductory essay, and a Works Cited of primary and secondary resources of interest to the Queste. Alison Stoness comparative study and detailed collation of the decoration of illustrated Queste manuscripts provide a unique and indispensable resource of Queste manuscript art and its connections to the narrative.
The Adventures of the Holy Grail
La Queste del Saint Graal is one of the best-known and most important of the medieval Grail Romances, being the first text to portray the character of Galahad the «perfect» knight, and the earliest extant version of the tale to attempt to fuse the dual tradition associated with the Grail: pseudo-Celtic and Christian. However, it is often considered a difficult text, containing passages of dense metaphor and a seemingly disjointed plot. This study explains the link between metaphor and structure within the text, by means of detailed analysis of certain key sections of the narrative, showing how the author has carefully constructed a hierarchy of characters. What also emerges is that the aut...
La Queste Del Saint Graal
Excerpt from La Queste Del Saint Graal: In The French Prose Of (As Is Supposed) Maistres Gautiers Map, Or Walter Map; Written By Him For The Love Of King Henry His Lord Sec Roger Ascham'a opinion, Morte Arum; the whole pleasure cf which booha standah in two speciall poyatos, in open mana alaughtcr and bold bawdryc: Inwhich hoohe thoaoha countedthcnohleat Knightea. That do hill moat men without any quarell, and commit fowlut aduoultereabyautlcatahine: aa Sir Mugvnth thcwifoofkingartbm hiamaater: Syr Triam'rith the wifeofkyngll'arh hia nnclc: Sewith thewifo ofhingua, thatwaahiaownanntc. Thia ia gond stnfl'e for wiac men to laughcat, or honest mentotah pleaanreat. Yetlhnowwhengoda Bihlowaa han...
