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


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


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


[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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