Chrétien''s Jewish Grail: A New Investigation of the Imagery and Significance of Chrétien de Troyes''s Grail Episode Based on Medieval Hebraic Sources
ISBN: 9781469647401
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of North Carolina Press
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Subjects: Chrestien de Troyes 12th cent. Perceval le Gallois -- Sources; Jews. Liturgy and ritual. Hagadah -- Influence;

The author, after analyzing textual and iconographic descriptions of the medieval Jewish Passover Seder , concludes that Chretien de Troyes's Grail banquet (found in his romance Perceval ) portrayed a Sephardic Seder . The author proves by documentary evidence the possibility of Chretien's having been influenced by Sephardic Jewry and structurally reinterprets the Perceval in terms of the Exodus motif.


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