Introduction: the Modena manuscript; authorship and sources; sacred relics; the trilogy's construction; style; further reading. Joseph of Arimathea; Merlin; Perceval.
NIGEL BRYANT is well known for his lively and accurate versions of
medieval French works. His translations of Chrétien de Troyes'
Perceval
and all its continuations and of the extraordinary late Arthurian
romance Perceforest have been major achievements; he has also
translated Jean le Bel's history of the early stages of the Hundred
Years War, and the 13th- and 14th-century biographies of William
Marshal and Bertrand du Guesclin. He was awarded the 2019 Norris J.
Lacy Prize for outstanding editorial achievement in Arthurian
studies.
A trilogy of romances establishing a provenance for the Holy Grail and, through Merlin, linking Joseph of Arimathea with mythical British history and the knightly adventures of Perceval's Grail quest.
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