Chrétien's Jewish Grail
Author | : Eugene J. Weinraub |
Publisher | : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of Romance Studies |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780807891681 |
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The author, after analyzing textual and iconographic descriptions of the medieval Jewish Passover Seder, concludes that Chretien de Troyes's Grail banquet (found in his romance Perceval) portrayed a Sephardic Seder. The author proves by documentary evidence the possibility of Chretien's having been influenced by Sephardic Jewry and structurally reinterprets the Perceval in terms of the Exodus motif.