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Cargando... The Holy Grail: Imagination and Beliefpor Richard Barber
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. This is not as rousing or exiting a history as I'd hoped for given what I thought I knew about the Holy Grail from the third Indiana Jones movie and popular culture in general. But I learned a lot and it certainly educated me as to the true history of the Grail (if you can define as "true history" the story of an imaginary object invented by an author who never even described what the object actually was or what it looked like). If you have any interest in the Grail, this is your book. I am very glad I stumbled across this book and I recommend it. ( ) sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
The Holy Grail is an image familiar to us all as an almost unattainable, infinitely desirable goal. The idea has passed into everyday speech and the legends behind it are as current in today's culture as they have ever been. And yet the Grail has no real religious meaning and is nowhere mentioned in the Bible. What is the truth behind this elusive symbol? beginning with Chretien de Troyes, who in the twelfth century first imagined the famous scene in which a mysterious golden vessel adorned with jewels was paraded before the eyes of an untested youth. The author died before he could complete his tale, and the unsolved mystery of the grail has haunted us ever since. By a long series of imaginative transformations, the grail has moved from the sphere of romance to religion, and in twentieth century popular culture has become an emblem of mysticism and man's highest aspirations, intimately linked with the central ritual of the Christian faith. history, literature and art, and ranging across most of western Europe and the Near East. The diversity of concepts involved shows the wealth of the Grail's cultural influence: from the beginning of prose romances ? precursors of the modern novel ? to the hotly disputed theological ideas of the medieval period and the passions of popular religion. In later centuries, the grail leads us through the rise of literary scholarship and the fashionable ideas that shaped it, the nineteenth-century enthusiasm for all things medieval, and twentieth-century New Age. The search for the grail has always been described as a quest; in this book, Barber goes on his own quest, exploring the richness of the Holy Grail's cultural impact. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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