· In The Holy Grail: Imagination and Belief, Richard Barber sets himself the daunting task of "trac(ing) what we know about the Grail" from its original manifestation in Chretien de Troyes's Le Conte du Graal, through its various medieval incarnations and nineteenth-century revivals, and into the popular culture of the twentieth century (1). RICHARD BARBER, The Holy Grail: Imagination and Belief. Cambridge, MA.: Harvard University Press, Pp. xv, ISBN: $ pb: x. $ 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 . The Holy Grail, as created and conceived by Chrétien de Troyes in the late 12th century, had no obvious religious or Christian connotations but appeared in a story of chivalric adventure involving the knight Perceval. By the medieval period the Grail was to be found at .
Buy Holy Grail, The: A Study in Imagination and Belief 1st by Barber, Richard (ISBN: ) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Richard William Barber FRSL FSA FRHistS (born ) is a British historian who has published several books about medieval history and literature. His book The Knight and Chivalry, about the interplay between history and literature, won the Somerset Maugham Award, a well-known British literary prize, in A similarly-themed book, The Holy Grail: Imagination and Belief, was widely. Richard William Barber FRSL FSA FRHistS (born ) is a British historian who has published several books about medieval history and literature. His book, The Knight and Chivalry, about the interplay between history and literature, won the Somerset Maugham Award, a well-known British literary prize, in A similarly-themed book, The Holy Grail: Imagination and Belief, was widely.
The Holy Grail is an image familiar to us all as an almost unattainable, infinitely desirable goal. The idea has passed into everyday speech and the legends behind it are as current in today's culture as they have ever been. And yet the Grail has no real religious meaning and is nowhere mentioned in the Bible. In The Holy Grail: Imagination and Belief, Richard Barber sets himself the daunting task of "trac(ing) what we know about the Grail" from its original manifestation in Chretien de Troyes's Le Conte du Graal, through its various medieval incarnations and nineteenth-century revivals, and into the popular culture of the twentieth century (1). Barber is especially good at discussing the human longing for perfection and wholeness that the Grail quest symbolizes, and in speculating on why the Grail archetype holds such strong attraction. Part of the key to understanding its appeal lies in the fact that it is a product of the interplay between two essential human characteristics: belief and imagination (hence the book's subtitle).
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