Chr�tien's Jewish Grail: A New Investigation of the Imagery and Significance of Chr�tien de Troyes's Grail Episode Based on Medieval Hebraic Sources

By Eugene J Weinraub

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

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807891681
• ISBN13: 9780807891681
• Release Date: January 1976
• Publisher: Unc Department of Romance Studies
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"