Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Notes on Contributors xi
4. Foreword xv
5. 1 Introduction: Arthur and/or the Grail 1
6. 2 The Shape of the Grail in Medieval Art 13
7. 3 The Crusaders’ Grail 28
8. 4 Bounds of Imagination: Grail Questing and Chivalric Colonizing in Wolfram von Eschenbach’s Parzival 48
9. 5 The Land without the Grail: A Note on Occitania, Rigaut de Barbezieux and Literary History 62
10. 6 Female Desire and the Quest in the Icelandic Legend of Tristram and Ísodd 76
11. 7 Questing in the Middle Dutch Lancelot Compilation 92
12. 8 Keeping Company: Manuscript Contexts for Reading Arthurian Quest Narratives 109
13. 9 Grail and Quest in the Medieval English World of Arthur 126
14. 10 Malory and the Grail: The Importance of Detail 141
15. 11 Glastonbury, the Grail-Bearer and the Sixteenth-Century Antiquaries 156
16. 12 The Grail Quest: Where Next? 173
17. Appendix: The Grail on Film 185
18. Index 207