 | Chrétien''s Jewish Grail Subjects: Quests (Expeditions) in literature.; Judaism in literature.; French language; Knights and knighthood in literature.; Grail; Arthurian romances; 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. |
