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Richard Barber.
The Holy Grail: The History of a Legend.
Published London: Penguin, 5th impression (previously issued 2005; hardback was 2004).
ISBN 0140267654;
ISBN-13: 9780140267655.
Binding: paperback, perfect bound.
Printer: Clays Ltd., St. Ives.
Size: 128x196x21mm.
Page count: text xv,464; plates 8pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair: this corner has a heavy knock on the lower outside corner; corners starting to curl and split; the pages are starting to yellow with age; the spine is not creased from reading and the text appears to be free of marking.

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[Publisher’s price £9.99]
Weight without packaging: 356g.

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Contents: Chrétien de Troyes; Robert de Boron; High Book of the Grail; The Lancelot-Grail; Wolfram’s Parzival; The Grail; Setting of the Grail; Obscure histories, dubious relics; The Holy Grail; Secrets of the Grail; The Grail outside the romances; "There is a thing that’s called the Grâl"; Later German romances; The last flowering; Interlude; The scholars & the Grail; Revival of the Grail; The Grail as mirror; The Grail today; The question answered?
Appendices: Major grail romances 1180-1250 — Visual images relating to the stories —Theological terms — Use of the term "Holy Grail" in major newspapers, 1978-2002.

Notes: at end of book
Tables: 2
Illustrations: 23 monochrome illustrations, plus 8 pages of colour plates
Maps & plans: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 31pp
Index: yes

See also | Holy Grail | Arthurian studies |
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