Romance of the Grail: The Magic and Mystery of Arthurian Myth

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Romance of the Grail: The Magic and Mystery of Arthurian Myth
by Joseph Campbell

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Table of Contents

EDITOR'S FOREWORD

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

PART ONE: FOUNDATIONS AND BACKGROUNDS OF THE GRAIL ROMANCES

CHAPTER 1: Neolithic, Celtic, Roman, and German Backgrounds

CHAPTER 2: Irish Christianity: Saints Brendan and Patrick

CHAPTER 3: Theology, Love, Troubadours, and Minnesingers

PART TWO: KNIGHTS IN QUEST

CHAPTER 4: Wolfram von Eschenbach’s Parzival

• Gahmuret
• Parzival
• Gawain
• Feirefiz
• Oriental Reflections on Wolfram’s Parzival

CHAPTER 5: Tristan and Iseult

• Origins and Transmission of the Tristan Story
• Horses, Pigs, and Dragons: King Mark and Tristan
• Japanese and South African Reflections in the Tristan Story

CHAPTER 6: The Knights of the Round Table

• Arthur
• Galahad, Bors, and Perceval
• Lancelot
• Yvain
• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

PART THREE: THEMES AND MOTIFS

CHAPTER 7: The Waste Land

• Enchantment and Disenchantment
• The Anointed King
• The Wound
• The Fisher King
• The Grail
• Avalon

APPENDIX A. "A Study of the Dolorous Stroke"

APPENDIX B. Joseph Campbell’s Library: Works on the Arthurian Romances of the Middle Ages

EDITOR'S NOTE TO THE DIGITAL EDITION

NOTES

ILLUSTRATION SOURCES

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[This Table of Contents was originally posted to YouAreThat.org. I may have omitted some of the scholarly apparatus from this table of contents, such as Acknowledgements, the Index, etc.]

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