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- Chrétien's Jewish Grail: A New Investigation of the Imagery and Significance of Chrétien de Troyes's Grail Episode Based on Medieval Hebraic Sources
- Book
- 2018
- Published by: The University of North Carolina Press
- Series: North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures
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The author, after analyzing textual and iconographic descriptions of the medieval Jewish Passover Seder, concludes that Chretien de Troyes's Grail banquet (found in his romance Perceval) portrayed a Sephardic Seder. The author proves by documentary evidence the possibility of Chretien's having been influenced by Sephardic Jewry and structurally reinterprets the Perceval in terms of the Exodus motif.
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- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- pp. 7-8
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- pp. 9-14
- INTRODUCTION
- pp. 15-20
- CHAPTER IV. THE DEVELOPMENT OF PERCEVAL
- pp. 90-103
- CHAPTER V. INTERPRETATION AND CONCLUSIONS
- pp. 106-121
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- pp. 118-131
- TABLE OF PLATES
- pp. 132-138
Additional Information
ISBN
9781469647401
Related ISBN(s)
9780807891681
MARC Record
OCLC
1080551574
Pages
136
Launched on MUSE
2019-01-02
Language
English
Open Access
No
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