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The Holy Grail: Imagination and Belief
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RICHARD BARBER, The Holy Grail: Imagination and Belief. Cambridge, MA.: Harvard University Press, 1004. Pp. xv, 464. ISBN: 0-674-01390-5. $27.95. pb: 0-674-01815-x. $16.95.
With the last few years' furor over Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code, a text which has spawned not only a movie but also a minor sub-industry of rebuttals in books, television programs, and church discussion groups (see Norris Lacy, ARTHURIANA 14.3 [2004]), it is refreshing to be able to turn to a thorough, comprehensive, ...
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The Holy Grail: Imagination and Belief.(Book Review)
Christianity and Literature
; The Holy Grail: Imagination and Belief. By Richard Barber. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004. ISBN 0-674-01390-5. Pp. xiv + 464. $27.95. The quest for the Holy Grail continues in Richard Barber's careful and readable account of a literary cum religious mystery that has grown over the
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The Holy Grail: Imagination and Belief
Arthuriana
; RICHARD BARBER, The Holy Grail: Imagination and Belief. Cambridge, MA.: Harvard University Press, 1004. Pp. xv, 464. ISBN: 0-674-01390-5. $27.95. pb: 0-674-01815-x. $16.95. With the last few years' furor over Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code, a text which has spawned not only a movie but also a minor
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THE HOLY GRAIL BOOKS / Nonfiction
International Herald Tribune
; Michiko Kakutani International Herald Tribune 02-26-2004 THE HOLY GRAIL Imagination and Belief By Richard Barber. Illustrated. 464 pages. $27.95. Harvard University Press. Reviewed by Michiko Kakutani* The Holy Grail has become a popular metaphor for elusive perfection, for the most exalted or
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Grail; Medieval writers invented quest for the holy vessel.(BOOKS)
The Washington Times
; Byline: Eric Wargo, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES Late in the 12th century, the French writer Chretien de Troyes penned a prose romance about an immature would-be knight named Perceval, who encounters a wondrous, strange vessel serving an unknown personage in a mysterious castle. Adhering rigidly
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Looking for the Holy Grail: Richard Barber explores the origin of the Holy Grail story, its significance in its own time and its wider impact in subsequent centuries.
History Today
; 'IT IS DUSK. A young knight is riding through a deserted countryside, seeking shelter for the night. He has seen no one all day, save a fisherman who has told him of a castle nearby where he will be made welcome. Just as he has given up hope of finding it, he sees it hidden in a valley, and makes
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The Virgin and the Grail: Origins of a Legend.(Book review)
Christianity and Literature
; The Virgin and the Grail: Origins of a Legend. By Joseph Goering. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005. ISBN 0-300-10661-0. Pp. xii + 181. $35.00. The current decade has seen both a popular and historical revival of interest in the meaning and origin of the Holy Grail. Scholars and writers
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Quest for the Holy Grail
Daily Mail
; STANDING 11ft high, surrounded by trees and covered in moss, it looks for all the world like a grand mausoleum exactly befitting the ancestral home of the Earl of Lichfield. But it is not the family tomb. Instead this vast stone monument is at the centre of a tantalising mystery. For some believe
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The Holy Grail: From Romance Motif to Modern Genre.
Folklore
; In his search for the Grail, Tennyson's Lancelot follows a sweet voice singing in the topmost tower : as in a dream I seemed to climb For ever: at the last I reached a door It gave, and throe' a stormy glare, a heat As from a seventimes-heated furnace And yet methought I saw the Holy Grail All
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A Pictorial Source For the Grail Maiden?
Arthuriana
; 'The Grail is, in one of its aspects, a historical and literary puzzle, and there is an insatiable appetite for solutions to such mysteries and puzzlesRichard Barber For more than eight hundred years the search for the Grail has been going on. As shown by the bestseller-phenomenon of The Da Vinci
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Writer lays Welsh claim to the origins of the Holy Grail mystery; Academic says our links to the relic are stronger than Scotland's.(News)
Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales)
; Byline: Robin Turner THE allure of the Holy Grail has fascinated writers and ensnared knights for more than 1,000 years. From Malory to Monty Python, the eternal chalice-said to be the very cup from which Jesus drank at the last supper - has become enshrined as one of popular culture's most
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