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The Virgin and the Grail
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ISBN: 128172890X 9786611728908 0300138202 9780300138207 9781281728906 9780300106619 0300106610 6611728902 Year: 2005 Publisher: New Haven, Conn. Yale University Press

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Some fifty years before Chrétien de Troyes wrote what is probably the first and certainly the most influential story of the Holy Grail, images of the Virgin Mary with a simple but radiant bowl (called a "grail" in local dialect) appeared in churches in the Spanish Pyrenees. In this fascinating book, Joseph Goering explores the links between these sacred images and the origins of one of the West's most enduring legends. While tracing the early history of the grail, Goering looks back to the Pyrenean religious paintings and argues that they were the original inspiration of the grail legend. He explains how storytellers in northern France could have learned of these paintings and how the enigmatic "grail" in the hands of the Virgin came to form the centerpiece of a story about a knight in King Arthur's court. Part of the allure of the grail, Goering argues, was that neither Chrétien nor his audience knew exactly what it represented or why it was so important. And out of the attempts to answer those questions the literature of the Holy Grail was born.

Marian devotion in thirteenth-century French lyric
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ISBN: 0802038859 144267704X 1282028979 9786612028977 Year: 2005 Publisher: Toronto, [Ontario] ; Buffalo, [New York] ; London, [England] : University of Toronto Press,

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Texts centred on the mother of Jesus abound in religious traditions the world over, but thirteenth-century Old French lyric stands apart, both because of the enormous size of the Marian cult in thirteenth-century France and the lack of critical attention the genre has garnered from scholars.As hybrid texts, Old French Marian songs combine motifs from several genres and registers to articulate a devotional message. In this comprehensive and illuminating study, Daniel E. O?Sullivan examines the movement between secular and religious traditions in medieval culture that Old French religious song embodies. He demonstrates that Marian lyric was far more than a simple, mindless imitation of secular love song. On the contrary, Marian lyric participated in a dynamic interplay with the secular tradition that different composers shaped and reshaped in light of particular doctrinal and aesthetic concerns. It is a corpus that reveals itself to be far more malleable and supple than past readers have admitted.With an extensive index of musical and textual editions of dozens of songs, Marian Devotion in Thirteenth-Century French Lyric brings a heretofore neglected genre to light.

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French poetry --- Songs, Old French --- Christian poetry, French --- Religion and culture --- History and criticism --- History --- Mary, --- In literature --- Old French literature --- Christian special devotions --- anno 1200-1299 --- Music --- Vocal music --- Church music --- Musique --- Musique vocale --- Musique d'église --- Poésie française --- Chansons françaises (ancien français) --- Poésie chrétienne française --- Religion et culture --- History and criticism. --- Histoire et critique --- Histoire --- In literature. --- Chansons francaises (ancien francais) --- Marie, Sainte Vierge, dans la litterature --- Poesie chretienne francaise --- Poesie francaise --- 248.159.4 --- 840 "12" --- 248.159.4 Mariale devotie. Verering van O. L. Vrouw. Mariamaand --- Mariale devotie. Verering van O. L. Vrouw. Mariamaand --- Old French songs --- Culture and religion --- Culture --- Franse literatuur--?"12" --- ʻAdhrāʼ --- Arogyamata --- Ārōkkiyamāta --- Birhen ng mga Dukha --- Blessed Lady --- Blessed Mother --- Blessed Virgin Mary, --- Hagnē Theotokos --- Madonna, The --- Mama Mary --- Mare de Déu --- Maria, --- Mariam Astuatsatsin --- Marie, --- Marie Théotokos --- Marii︠a︡, --- Maryam, --- Maryja, --- Meryem Ana --- Miryam, --- Mother of God --- Muíre, --- Nossa Senhora --- Our Lady --- Our Lady of Good Health --- Our Lady of Sorrows --- Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament --- Qiddīsah Maryam --- Theotokos --- Vierge Marie, --- Virgen María --- Virgin Mary, --- Virgin of the Poor --- Ynang Maria --- مريم --- مريم العذراء --- 성모마리아 --- Our Lady of Emmitsburg --- Majka Isusova --- Mariam Astuatsatsin, --- Meryem Ana, --- Virgen María, --- Ynang Maria,

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