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Holy Grail and Holy Thorn - Glastonbury in the English Imagination (Paperback)
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Holy Grail and Holy Thorn - Glastonbury in the English Imagination (Paperback)
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List price R505
Loot Price R413
Discovery Miles 4 130
You Save R92 (18%)
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The Holy Grail and Holy Thorn explores the legends of King Arthur
and Joseph of Arimathea at Glastonbury and how their influence has
been felt from medieval to modern times. Joseph was said to have
built at Glastonbury the first church in Christendom, which made it
a center of medieval pilgrimage, and gave Glastonbury an
international profile in the fifteenth century. Through the
winter-flowering holy thorn, said to have grown from Joseph's
staff, and later the Chalice Well, Glastonbury remained a focus of
superstition in the Protestant centuries. In medieval romance
Joseph of Arimathea had been the first keeper of the Holy Grail, a
mystical past that was revived by Romantic writers and artists and
ensured that Glastonbury retained a place in our national culture.
In the twentieth century Glastonbury's reputation was further
elaborated by the belief that Joseph was the great-uncle of Jesus
Christ, and that when he first came to Britain he brought the young
Jesus with him, an idea suggested by William Blake's Jerusalem. In
the same mystical tradition, in the 1960s John Michell saw in
Glastonbury the dimensions of New Jerusalem, which proved crucial
in making Glastonbury the capital of New Age culture.
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