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The complete text is followed by a listing of proper names and a table of variants based on six other versions of the manuscript. The introduction gives the background of the author, the work, and the legend and discusses the seven versions and language used.

This essay offers a new interpretation of Chretien's Conte del Graal that includes both an epilogue and a foreword in which the author defends his work. The author's approach is to offer a more consistent solution to understanding the Grail by assuming that neither the successors of Chretien nor the authors of other Grail works had knowledge of the Grail's original meaning.

Three annotated essays are examined and conjectures are made as to events probably occurring during the period. The essays are "Samuel Pepys in Paris, " "Medieval Gardens, " and "A Twelfth-Century Schoolmaster.

This book presents new and convincing evidence demonstrating the Judeo-Christian themes and allegory of Chretien de Troys' 'Conte del Graal'. Basing the study on a careful analysis of Chretien's milieu as well as on his work itself, the authors seek the essential meaning of the most significant masterpiece of the Middle Ages before Dante.