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Roger Sherman Loomis.
The Grail, from Celtic Myth to Christian Symbol.
Published London: Constable & Co., 1993 (hardback was 1992; originally published by Columbia U.P., 1963).
ISBN 0094723109;
ISBN-13 9780094723108.
Binding: paperback, stitch bound.
Printer: St. Edmundsbury Press, Bury St. Edmunds.
Size: 137x215x23mm.
Page count: text xiv,287pp; illustrations 3pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition good: this copy has some scuffs and wrinkles on the covers, not too severe, a bit of wear on the edges and corners; pages a bit yellowed with age; the spine has some scuffs & wrinkles and remnants of a sticker on it, but is not creased from reading and the text appears to be free of marking.

This item £5.00
plus P&P £3.00 within the UK
(delivery outside the UK not currently available)

[Princeton U.P. edn. in print at $28.95/£19.95]
Weight without packaging: 365g.

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Contents: Chief romances of the grail — preview; Origins & growth of Arthurian romance; Celtic myths — mutations & combinations; First grail story — Conte del Graal of Chrétien de Troyes; Grail bearer, question test & Fisher King; First sequel to Conte — corpse on the bier & broken sword; Irish Echtrai — waste land & bleeding lance; Manessier's sequel & Peredur — mission of revenge; Perlesvaus — Welsh talismans & Welsh Elysium; Sone de Nansai & Mabinogi of Branwen; Prose Lancelot — combat & scandal in castle of King Pelles; Queste del Saint Graal — Celtic story-patterns in Cistercian allegory; Parzival, spiritual biography of a knight; Joseph of Arimathea, evangelist by error; Glastonbury, school of forgery & Isle of Avalon; End of the quest.
Appendices: Illustrations; The elucidation [Chrétien’s Conte del Graal].

Illustrations: 3, monochrome
Maps & plans: no

Notes: at foot of page
Tables: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 2pp
Index: yes

See also | Holy Grail |
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