9. Refining the Center: Verse and Prose Charrette

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. The Contributors viii
5. A Note on the Lancelot-Grail Cycle x
6. Introduction xi
7. Part I: The Lancelot-Grail Cycle in Context
8. 1. Chivalry, Cistercianism and the Grail 1
9. 2. The Making of the Lancelot-Grail Cycle 13
10. 3. Aquestion of Time: Romance and History 23
11. 4. The Vulgate Cycle and the Post-Vulgate Roman du Graal 33
12. Part II: The Art of the Lancelot-Grail Cycle
13. 5. Interlace and the Cyclic Imagination 55
14. 6. The Gateway to the Lancelot-Grail Cycle: L’Estoire del Saint Graal 65
15. 7. The Merlin and its Suite 75
16. 8. The Book of Lancelot 87
17. 9. Refining the Center: Verse and Prose Charrette 95
18. 10. The Queste del saint Graal: from semblance to veraie semblance 107
19. 11. The Sense of an Ending: La Mort le Roi Artu 115
20. 12. ‘Mise en page’ in the French Lancelot-Grail: The First 150 Years of the Illustrative Tradition 125
21. Part III: Posterity
22. 13. The Lancelot-Grail Cycle in England: Malory and his Predecessors 147
23. 14. Lancelot in Italy 163
24. 15. Lancelot in Germany 173
25. 16. The Spanish Lancelot-Grail Heritage 185
26. 17. Neither Sublime nor Gallant: The Portuguese Demanda and the New Destiny of Man 195
27. 18. The Lancelots of the Lowlands 205
28. 19. Manuscripts of the Lancelot-Grail Cycle in England and Wales: Some Books and their Owners 219
29. 20. Towards a Modern Reception of the Lancelot-Grail Cycle 237
30. 21. Select Bibliography 255
31. Index 259