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Giles
Morgan.
The
Holy Grail.
Pocket
Essentials, 2005.
ISBN
190404834x.
Hardback.
186 x
124mm.
160pp.
Publisher's
recommended price £9.99
The Holy Grail is a subject
that fascinates and intrigues. Through its various guises as magic
cauldron, cornucopia, horn of plenty and chalice cup it has remained at
the centre of popular culture from antiquity right up to the present
day. An object of marvel and mystery it inhabits a place in mythology
that has its roots in historical facts. The Grail has been a major
inspiration and catalyst for literature and the arts in Western
Culture. From Celtic mythology to the flowering of the medieval
romances it has in many ways fulfilled its mythical role as a nurturing
and regenerative vessel by providing such a rich and seemingly
perpetual source of interest to writers and artists.
Charting the emergence of the story of the Grail offers a revealing
insight into the cultural shift from Celtic paganism to the emergence
and domination of Christianity in Western Europe. The influence of
Eastern mysticism emerges in the Grail romances as a result of the
medieval crusades with its clash of cultures and subsequent
cross-pollination of ideas. The Grail has come to symbolise the
ultimate achievement in the modern mind and it became an object of
fascination for the psychologist Carl Jung and the poet TS Eliot.
Wagner, William Blake and the Pre-Raphaelites are just some of the
artists to have fallen under its enduring spell.
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