Texts
Allen, Paul M. A Christian Rosecreutz Anthology. New York: Rudolf Steiner Publications, 1981.
Barber, Richard, and Cyril Edwards. “The Grail Temple in Der Jüngere Titurel.” In Arthurian Literature XX, edited by Roger Dalrymple and Keith Busby, 85–102. D. S. Brewer, 2003. [The only previous modern translation of parts of the poem describing the Grail Temple.]
Brewer, Keagan. Prester John: The Legend and Its Sources. Routledge, 2012.
Bryant, Nigel, trans. The Complete Story of the Grail: Chrétien de Troyes Perceval and Its Continuations. D. S. Brewer, 2015.
———. Merlin and the Grail: The Trilogy of Arthurian Romances Attributed to Robert de Boron. D. S. Brewer, 1970.
Bryant, Nigel. The High Book of the Grail: A Translation of the Thirteenth-Century Romance of Perlesvaus. D. S. Brewer, 2007.
Budge, E. A. Wallis. The Kebra Negast: The Book of the Glory of Kings. Aziloth Books, 2013.
Davies, Sioned, trans. The Mabinogion. Oxford World Classics, 1998.
Day, Mildred Leake, ed. and trans. The Story of Meriadoc, King of Cambria (Historia Meriadoci, Regis Cambrie). Garland Publishing, 1988.
de Boron, Robert. Joseph d’Arimathie. Translated by H. Lovelich. Early English Text Society, 1874.
de Troyes, Chrétien. Arthurian Romances. Translated by William W. Kibler. Penguin Books, 1991.
———. Conte du Graal (Percevale). Translated by Pierre Kunstman. Université d’Ottawa/Laboratoire de français ancien, ATILF, 2009.
———. Percival: The Story of the Grail. Translated by Nigel Bryant. D. S. Brewer, 1982.
Durand, William. Rationale Divinorum Officiorum. Edited by Joseph Dura. Naples, 1859.
Edgington, Susan B., and Carol Sweetenham, trans. The Chanson d’Antioche: An Old French Account of the First Crusade. Ashgate, 2011.
Gilleland, Brady B., and Johannes de Alta Silva. Dolopathos, or The King and the Seven Wise Men. Centre for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies, 1981.
Goldschmidt, Moritz von, ed. Sone von Nausay. Bibliothek des Literischen Vereins in Stuttgart, CCXVI, 1899.
Gower, John. Confessio Amantis: Tales of the Seven Deadly Sins. Edited by Taylor Anderson. Create Space, 2018.
Hahn, Karl August. Albrecht: Der Jüngere Titurel. Druck & Verlag von Gottfried Base, 1842. [The first edition of highlights from the poem.]
Hibbard, Laura A. Medieval Romance in England. Burt Franklin, 1963.
Hopf, Charles. Chroniques Greco-Romaines Inedites ou Peo Connues: Robert de Clari, la Conquête de Constantinople. Weidmann, 1873.
Ibn Khaldun. The Muqaddimah. Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1958.
Jameson, Anna. Sacred and Legendary Art. 1911.
Lachet, Claude, ed. Sone de Nansay. Honore Champion Editeur, 2014. [The only complete modern edition of the work.]
The Lancelot-Grail: The Old French Arthurian Vulgate and Post-Vulgate in Translation. Edited by Norris J. Lacy, translated by Carol J. Chase. D. S. Brewer, 2010.
Loomis, R. S. Arthurian Legends in Medieval Art. Modern Language Association of America, 1938.
Malory, Sir Thomas. Le Morte d’Arthur. Edited by John Matthews. Cassell, 2000.
Martyr, Justin. The First and Second Apologies. Edited by Leslie William Barnard. Paulist Press, 1968.
Matarasso, P. M., trans. The Quest of the Holy Grail. Penguin, 1969.
Matthews, C., J. Matthews, and G. Knight. The Lost Book of the Grail: Restoring the Courts of Joy. Inner Traditions, 2018. [Includes a new translation of L’Elucidation.]
Mickel, Emanuel J. Jr., and Jan A. Nelson, eds. The Old French Crusade Cycle. University of Alabama Press.
Mingana, A. Woodbrook Studies: Christian Documents in Syriac, Arabic, and Gsarshūni. Heffer & Sons, 1928.
Neale, J. M., and R. F. Littledale, trans. “The Divine Liturgy of St. Mark.” In The Liturgies of SS Mark, James, Clement, Chrysostom, and Basil and the Church of Malabar. Leopold Classics Library, 2016.
Passage, Charles E. Titurel: Wolfram of Eschenbach, Translation and Studies. Frederick Ungar, 1984.
Penninc and Pieter Vostaert. Roman Van Walewein. Edited and translated by David P. Johnson. Garland Publishing, 1992.
Signer, Michael A., Marcus Nathan Adler, and A. Asher. The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela: Travels in the Middle Ages. NightinGale Resources, 2010.
Slessarev, V. Prester John: The Letter and the Legend. University of Minnesota Press, 1959.
St. Germanus of Constantinople. On the Divine Liturgy: The Greek Text, with Translation, Introduction and Commentary. Edited by Paul Meyendorff. St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 1984.
St. Paul’s Apocalypse. Translated by M. R. James in Visions of Heaven and Hell Before Dante, edited by Eileen Gardiner. 1989.
Weston, Jessie L. Sir Gawain at the Grail Castle. David Nutt, 1903.
Whiston, William, trans. New Complete Works of Flavius Josephus. Revised and expanded. Kregel Academic, 1999.
William of Tyre. The Conquest of Jerusalem and the Third Crusade: Crusade Texts in Translation. Edited by Peter W. Edbury. Ashgate, 1998.
Wolf, Werner, and Kurt Nyholm, eds. Albrecht von Scharfenberg Jüngerer Titurel, Deutsche Texte des Mittelalters, XLV, LV, LXI LXXIII. 1955–95. [The only complete edition of the text in German.]
Wolfram von Eschenbach. Parzival. Translated by A. T. Hatto. Penguin, 1980.
Further Studies
Adolf, Helen. “Oriental Sources for Grail Romances.” Publications of the Modern Language Association LXII (1947): 306–23.
———. Visio Pacis, Holy City and Grail. The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1960.
Ashe, Geoffrey. King Arthur’s Avalon. London: William Collins, 1958.
Barber, Richard. The Holy Grail, Imagination and Belief. Alan Lane, 2004.
Barto, Philip S. Tannhauser and the Mountain of Venus. Oxford University Press, 1916.
Bogdanow, F. “Robert de Borron’s Vision of Arthurian History.” Arthurian Literature XIV (1996): 19–52.
Boisserée, Sulpiz. Ueber die Beschreibung des Tempels des heiligen Grales in dem Heldengedicht: Titurel Kap III. Druck von G. Jaquet, 1834.
Brewer, Elizabeth. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: Sources and Analogues. D. S. Brewer, 1992.
Brooks, Michael E. “Prester John: A Reexamination and Compendium of the Mythical Figure Who Helped Spark European Expansion.” PhD thesis, University of Toledo, 2009.
Bruce, J. D. The Evolution of Arthurian Romance From the Beginnings Down to the Year 1300. Second edition. Peter Smith, 1958.
Cabaniss, Alan. “Joseph of Arimathea and a Chalice.” Mississippi Studies in English 4 (1963).
Carey, John. “Henry Corbin and the Secret of the Grail.” Temenos Academy Review 14 (2011): 159–178.
Carman, J. Neal. “The Symbolism of the Perlesvaus.” PMLA LXI (1946).
Clifton-Everest, J. M. The Tragedy of Knighthood: Origins of the Tannhauser Legend. Medium Aevum Monographs, New Series, X, Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literature, 1978.
Coyajee, J. C. “The Legend of the Holy Grail: Its Iranian and Indian Analogues.” Studies in Shahnameh. D. B. Taraporevala Sons and Co., 1940.
Crichlow, K. Soul as Sphere and Androgine. Golgonooza Press, 1980.
Dobschütz, Ernst von. “Joseph von Arimathea.” Zeitschrift fur Kirchengeschicht XXIII (1902).
Duggan, Joseph. “Performance and Transmission, Aural and Ocular Reception in the Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Century Vernacular Literature of France.” Romance Philology XLIII (1989/90), 49–58.
Elkington, D. The Quest for the Face of God. (forthcoming)
Gaster, Moses. Studies & Texts. London, 1925–28.
Gerritson, Willem P. ,and Anthony G. van Melle, eds. A Dictionary of Medieval Heroes. Boydell Press, 1998.
Greer, John Michael. The Secret of the Temple. Llewellyn, 2017.
Hamblin, William J. and David Rolph Seely, Solomon’s Temple, Myth and History. Thames and Hudson, 2007.
Holmes, Urban Tigner. “The Arthurian Tradition in Lambert d’Ardres.” Speculum 25, no. 1 (1950): 100–103.
———. Chrétien de Troyes. Twayne Publishers, 1970.
———. A History of Old French Literature. Crofts and Co., 1938.
———. “A New Interpretation of Chrétien’s Conte del Graal.” Studies in Philology XLIV (1947): 453–476.
Holmes, Urban Tigner, and Sr. Amelia Klenke. Chrétien, Troyes and the Grail. University of North Carolina, 1959.
Huff, Dietrich. “The Ilkhanid Palace at Takht-I Sulayman: Excavation Results.” Beyond the Legacy of Genghis Khan. Edited by L. Komaroff. Brill, 2013.
Izquerdo, Josep. “The Gospel of Nicodemus in Medieval Catalan and Occitan Literature.” In The Medieval Gospel of Nicodemus: Texts, Intertexts and Contexts in Western Europe, edited by Z. Izydorcyk. Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies 158, Arizona State University, 1997.
Jackson, W. H., and S. A. Ranawake, eds. The Arthur of the Germans. University of Wales Press, 2000.
Jaffray, Robert. The Two Knights of the Swan, Lohengrin & Helyas. G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1910.
Kahane, Henry, and Renee Kahane. “On the Sources of Chrétien’s Grail Story.” Festschrift Walther von Wartburg. Tubingen, 1968.
———. “Robert de Boron’s Joseph of Arimathea Byzantine Echoes in the Grail Myth.” Jahrbuch der Osterreichischen Bayzantianstik 38 (1988).
———. “The Secrets of the Grail, apropos of Francesco Zambon’s Robert de Boron.” Zeitschrift für Romanische Philologie 103 (1987): 108–14.
Knight, Gareth. Melusine of Lusignan and the Cult of the Faery Woman. R. J. Stewart Books, 2010.
Knight, Gareth, ed. The Book of Melusine of Lusignan: In History, Legend and Romance. Skylight Press, 2013.
Lachet, Claude, ed. Les Metamorphoses du Graal. GF Flammarion, 2012.
Lacy, Norris J., ed. The Grail, the Quest, and the World of Arthur. D. S. Brewer, 2008.
Langlois, Pierre. La Societe Francais au XIII Siecle. Hachette, 1904.
Lecouteux, Claude. Mélusine et le Chevalier au Cygne. Payot, 1982.
Le Gentil, Pierre. “The Work of Robert de Boron and the Didot Perceval.” Chapter 19 in Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages, A Collaborative History, edited by R. S. Loomis. Clarendon Press, 1959.
Logorio, Valerie. “Joseph of Arimathea: The Vita of a Grail Saint.” Zeitschrift fur romanische Philologie 91 (1989).
Loomis, R. S., ed. Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages, A Collaborative History. Clarendon Press, 1959.
———. Celtic Myth and Arthurian Romance. Columbia University Press, 1926.
———. The Grail: From Celtic Myth to Christian Symbol. Princeton University Press, 1963.
Lyons, William John. Joseph of Arimathea: A Study in Reception History. Oxford University Press, 2014.
Malcor, Linda. “The Chalice and the Cross: A Study of the Grail Motif in Medieval Europe.” PhD diss., University of California, 1991.
Matthews, John. The Grail: Quest for Eternal Life. Thames and Hudson, 1980.
Matthews, John, and Caitlín Matthews. The Complete King Arthur. Inner Traditions, 2016.
Meeks, Doris, and John Meeks. “The Temple of the Grail.” The Golden Blade 33 (1981): 52–61.
Michell, John. The Temple at Jerusalem: A Revelation. Gothic Image, 2000.
Needleman, Jacob, ed. The Sword of Gnosis: Metaphysics, Cosmology, Tradition, Symbolism. Penguin Books, 1974.
Neitze, W. A. Perceval and the Holy Grail. University of California Press, 1949.
Nicholson, Helen J. Love, War and the Grail. Brill, 2004.
Normand, Kruger. “A Study of the Old French Romance of Sone de Nansay.” PhD diss., University of Pennsylvania, 1975.
O’Gorman, R. “Ecclesiastical Tradition and the Holy Grail.” Australian Journal of French Studies 6 (1969): 3–8.
———. “Robert de Boron’s Angelology and Elements of Heretical Doctrine.” Zeitschrift für Romanische Philologie 109 (1970): 539–40.
Olschki, Leonardo. The Grail castle and Its Mysteries. Manchester University Press, 1966.
Owen, D. D. R. “From Grail to Holy Grail.” Romania 89 (1968): 31–53.
Parshall, Linda B. The Art of Narration in Wolfram’s Parzifal and Albrecht’s Jüngerer Titurel. Cambridge University Press, 1891.
Polarno, H. The Talmud: Selections from the Contents of that Ancient Book, Its Commentaries, Teachings, Poetry and Legends. Frederick Ungar, 1876.
Pope, A. U. “A Great Parthian Fortress that Defied Mark Antony.” Illustrated London News (26 February 1938): 348–349.
———. “Persia and the Grail.” The Literary Review 1 (1957).
Pope, A. U., M. Crane, and D. N. Wilber. “The Institute’s Survey of Persian Architecture, Preliminary Report on Takht-e Suleiman, the Significance of the Site, and Summary Description of the Extant Structures.” Bulletin of the American Institute for Iranian Art and Archaeology 5 (1937): 71–105.
Putter, Ad. “Walewein in the Otherworld and the Land of Prester John.” In Originality & Tradition in the Middle Dutch Roman van Walewein, edited by B. Besamusca and E. Kooper, 79–99. Cambridge, 1999.
Quinn, Esther Casier. The Quest of Seth for the Oil of Life. University of Chicago Press, 1962.
Ringbom, Lars-Ivar. Graltempel und Paradies: Beziehungen Zwischen Iran und Europa im Mittelalter. Wahlstrom and Widstrand, 1951.
Scavone, Daniel. “Gospel of Gamaliel: Early Evidence for the Survival of Jesus’ Shroud.” https://www.shroud.com/pdfs/n60part6.pdf.
———. “Joseph of Arimathea, the Holy Grail and the Edessa Icon.” Arthuriana 9, no. 4 (Winter 1999): 3–31.
Schayer, Leo. “The Meaning of the Temple.” In The Sword of Gnosis, edited by Jacob Needleman, 360. Penguin Books, 1974.
Uebel, M. Ecstatic Transformation: On the Uses of Alterity in the Middle Ages. New York, 2005.
van Esbroeck, M. “L’Histoire de L’eglise de Lydia dans deux Textes Georgiens.” Bedi Karthlisa: Revue de Karthvaelogie 35 (1977): 109–31.
von Dobschütz, Ernst. “Joseph von Arimathea.” Zeitschrift fur Kirchengeschicht XXIII (1902): 4–17.
von Schroeder, Leopold, and Alexander Jacob. The Grail: Two Studies. Numen Press, 2014.
Vukovic, Kresimir. “Initiation in the Mysteries of Augustus: The Liberalia and Forum Augustum.” [forthcoming]
Weinraub, Eugene J. Chrétien’s Jewish Grail. North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures, 1976.
Wesselofsky, A. N. “Zur Frage uber die Heimath der Legende von heilegen Gral.” Archiv fur slavische Philologie 232 (1901): 321–385.
Wilber, Donald N. “The Parthian Structures at Takht-i-Sulayman.” Antiquity XII, no. 4 (1938): 389–410.
Wilson, S. R. “The Grail Utopia in Southern Germany.” Temenos Academy Review 14 (2011): 138–158.
———. “Rene Guénon and the Heart of the Grail.” Temenos Academy Review 18 (2015): 146–167.
Wood, J. Eternal Chalice: The Enduring Legend of the Holy Grail. I.B. Tauris, 2016.