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Find many great new used options and get the best deals for The Virgin and the Grail - Origins of a Legend by Joseph Goering (, Trade Paperback) at the best online prices at eBay! Free shipping for many products! Joseph Goering: The Virgin and the Grail: Origins of a Legend. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, ; pp. Joseph Goering's The Virgin and the Grail: Origins of a Legend is a slim volume, written in a highly accessible way for the non‐specialist reader, albeit at times a little repetitive in making its basic points. RECENT publishing history has demonstrated that the Holy Grail remains a powerful image in the Western imagination. As set out by Joseph Goering, the origins of this imaginative creation are found firmly in the 12th century. The first part of his study is an extended commentary on the main authors of Grail literature.

Origins of a Legend. Some fifty years before Chrétien de Troyes wrote what is probably the first and certainly the most influential story of the Holy Grail, images of the Virgin Mary with a simple but radiant bowl (called a “grail” in local dialect) appeared in churches in the Spanish Pyrenees. In this fascinating book, Joseph Goering. xii, p.: 22 cm Includes bibliographical references (p. []) and index From Romance to History -- Chretien de Troyes: Perceval or the Conte du Graal -- Wolfram von Eschenbach: Parzival -- Robert de Boron: Joseph d'Arimathie (La grant estoire dou graal) -- Helinand of Froidmont -- Before Romance: The Virgin and the Grail in the Pyrenees -- The Bishop of Roda/Barbastre and the Churches. The Virgin and the Grail: Origins of a Legend. By Goering Joseph. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, xii + pp. $ cloth.