The Holy Grail: The History of a Legend by Richard Barber Penguin, [pounds sterling]9.99; BOOK MARK.(Book Review)

From: The Evening Standard (London, England) | Date: December 13, 2004 | Copyright information

Byline: DAVID SEXTON

The Da Vinci Code has been so much the dominant bestseller this year that it is now surrounded in the shops by a retinue of other books offering to expose its daft claims about Jesus, Mary and the Holy Grail. Oddly enough, there's one good title among them, just out in paperback, too: Richard Barber's lucid, scholarly account of where the legend of the Grail came from, and of the great art that it has inspired, as well a...

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