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Each of the 179 pictures in this handsome book is accompanied by
indications of source and date, and often by explanatory and
reference material. The portrayals of Chaucer, his friends and
associates, the poets he admired, and the places he knew, are drawn
mainly from the period 1340 to 1415. Originally published in 1978.
The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand
technology to again make available previously out-of-print books
from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press.
These editions preserve the original texts of these important books
while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions.
The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase
access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of
books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in
1905.
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Lanzelet (Paperback)
Ulrich Von Zatzikhoven; Translated by Thomas Kerth; As told to Kenneth G .T. Webster, Roger Sherman Loomis
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"Lanzelet," one of the first known versions of the Lancelot
story, is a critical work in medieval literature. This Middle High
German romance is a rendering of a lost French tale of Lancelot
that likely predates Chr?tien de Troyes's famous "Lancelot or the
Knight of the Cart." Ulrich von Zatzikhoven obtained a copy of the
original book in 1194 and translated the work from French into
German. Kenneth G.T. Webster made the first English translation in
the 1930s, and Columbia University Press published it in 1951.
Following Webster's death, the famed Arthurian scholar Roger
Sherman Loomis made slight modifications to the text and expanded
Webster's notes. Thomas Kerth's new translation, prepared with the
highest accuracy and scholarly insight available to date, includes
a new introduction and revised bibliography, notes from both Loomis
and Webster, and a commentary reflecting the fifty years of
scholarship on "Lanzelet" since the publication of Webster's
translation.
Each of the 179 pictures in this handsome book is accompanied by
indications of source and date, and often by explanatory and
reference material. The portrayals of Chaucer, his friends and
associates, the poets he admired, and the places he knew, are drawn
mainly from the period 1340 to 1415. Originally published in 1978.
The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand
technology to again make available previously out-of-print books
from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press.
These editions preserve the original texts of these important books
while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions.
The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase
access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of
books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in
1905.
The medieval legend of the Grail, a tale about the search for
supreme mystical experience, has never ceased to intrigue writers
and scholars by its wildly variegated forms: the settings have
ranged from Britain to the Punjab to the Temple of Zeus at Dodona;
the Grail itself has been described as the chalice used by Christ
at the Last Supper, a stone with miraculous youth-preserving
virtues, a vessel containing a man's head swimming in blood; the
Grail has been kept in a castle by a beautiful damsel, seen
floating through the air in Arthur's palace, and used as a talisman
in the East to distinguish the chaste from the unchaste. In his
classic exploration of the obscurities and contradictions in the
major versions of this legend, Roger Sherman Loomis shows how the
Grail, once a Celtic vessel of plenty, evolved into the Christian
Grail with miraculous powers. Loomis bases his argument on
historical examples involving the major motifs and characters in
the legends, beginning with the Arthurian legend recounted in the
1180 French poem by Chrtien de Troyes. The principal texts fall
into two classes: those that relate the adventures of the knights
in King Arthur's time and those that account for the Grail's
removal from the Holy Land to Britain. Written with verve and wit,
Loomis's book builds suspense as he proceeds from one puzzle to the
next in revealing the meaning behind the Grail and its legends.
King Arthur was not an Englishman, but a Celtic warrior, according
to Loomis, whose research into the background of the Arthurian
legend reveals findings which are both illuminating and highly
controversial. The author sees the vegetarian goddess as the
prototype of many damsels in Arthurian romance, and Arthur's
knights as the gods of sun and storm. If Loomis's arguments are
accepted, where does this leave the historic Arthur?
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