A Companion to the Lancelot-Grail Cycle
The early thirteenth-century French prose Lancelot-Grail Cycle (or Vulgate Cycle) brings together the stories of Arthur with those of the Grail, a conjunction of materials that continues to fascinate the Western imagination today. Representing what is probably the earliest large-scale use of prose for fiction in the West, it also exemplifies the taste for big cyclic compositions that shaped much of European narrative fiction for three centuries. A Companion to the Lancelot-Grail Cycle is the...
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Arthur and the grail stories appeared in this French prose cycle together for the first time; scholars explore its social, historical, literary and manuscript contexts and account for its enduring interest.
AcknowledgementsThe ContributorsA Note on the Lancelot-Grail CycleIntroduction1Chivalry, Cistercianism and the Grail32The Making of the Lancelot-Grail Cycle133A Question of Time: Romance and History234The Vulgate Cycle and the Post-Vulgate Roman du Graal335Interlace and the Cyclic Imagination556The Gateway to the Lancelot-Grail Cycle: L'Estoire dei Saint Graal657The Merlin and its Suite758The Book of Lancelot879Refining the Center: Verse and Prose Charrette9610The Queste del saint Graal: from semblance to veraie semblance10711The Sense of an Ending: La Mort le Roi Artu11512'Mise en page' in the French Lancelot-Grail: The First 150 Years of the Illustrative Tradition12513The Lancelot-Grail Cycle in England: Malory and his Predecessors14714Lancelot in Italy16315Lancelot in Germany17316The Spanish Lancelot-Grail Heritage18517Neither Sublime nor Gallant: The Portuguese Demanda and the New Destiny of Man19518The Lancelots of the Lowlands20519Manuscripts of the Lancelot-Grail Cycle in England and Wales: Some Books and their Owners21920Towards a Modern Reception of the Lancelot-Grail Cycle23721Select Bibliography255Index259
