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The Druids
"In this compelling and highly reliable study of the Druids, respected Celtic scholar Peter Berresford Ellis sifts through the historical evidence and, with reference to the latest archaeological and etymological findings, gives the first authentic…
The story of King Arthur and his knights
Relates how Arthur, son of Uther-Pendragon, became king of Britain, won a queen, and came to establish the Round Table.
The Holy Grail
For Richard Wagner and Steven Spielberg, the Holy Grail is a cup; for those at the fall of Jerusalem in 70 A.D., it was a book written by Jesus; for early European Christians, it was a reliquary containing the forearms of the Virgin Mary and Mary…
The Holy Grail: imagination and belief
"Barber traces the history of the stories surrounding the Holy Grail, beginning with Chretien de Troyes, who in the twelfth century first imagined the famous scene in which a mysterious golden vessel adorned with jewels was paraded before the eyes of…
Parsival, or a knight's tale
"Leaving the secluded castle of his queen mother, a kingdom of splendor and innocence, Parsival meets the world in a series of extraordinary adventures and mysterious encounters of the sword and of the soul."--Flyleaf.