Free standard shipping on all orders
  • Visa
  • Master Card
  • American Express
  • Apple Pay
  • Google Pay
  • JCB

Arthurian Literature and Christianity: Notes from the Twentieth Century book cover

1st Edition

Arthurian Literature and Christianity Notes from the Twentieth Century

Edited By Peter Meister Copyright 1999
228 Pages
by Routledge

376 Pages
by Routledge

226 Pages
by Routledge
Also available as eBook on:
Intended as "the other bookend" to Jessie Weston's work some eighty years earlier, this essay collection provides a careful overview of recent scholarship on possible overlap between Arthurian literature and Christianity. From Ritual to romance and Notes, taken together, bracket contemporary inquiry into the relationship (if any) between Jesus and Arthur. T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land" is here... Read more

Chapter 1: The Time of the Four Branches Chapter 2: Parzival and the Grail Chapter 3: From Germanic Warrior to Christian Knight: The Heliand Transformation Chapter 4: Romancing the Grail: Fiction and Theology in the Queste del Saint Graal Chapter 5: Grace and Salvation in Chretien de Troyes Chapter 6: The Allegory of Adventure: An Approach to Chretien's Romances Chapter 7: The Symbolic Use of a Turtledove for the Holy Spirit in Wolfram's Parzival, Chapter 8: The Crusades and Wolfram's Parzival Chapter 9: Lady Love, King, Minstrel: Courtly Depictions of Jesus or God in Late-Medieval Vernacular Mystical Literature

Biography

Peter Meister (Edited by)

Add to Cart