Ebook: The Discovery of the Grail

In this fascinating history Andrew Sinclair not only traces the evolution of the Grail myth from ancient times to ours but also investigates the numerous claims to the Grail's discovery in the Byzantine, in Palestine, in Wales. Sinclair studies, too, cultural and political ramifications of the Grail: how, for instance, crusaders expanded England's dominion in its name, how Puritans suppressed the romance of the Grail and how Sir Walter Scott revived it in the chivalric exploits of his novels; how, and why, Queen Victoria created two thousand Knights of the Empire; how the Grail vitalized the opera of Wagner and literature from Malory's 'Morte d'Arthur' to Alfred Lord Tennyson's 'Idylls of the King'.