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Grail And Grail Romances : Medieval France
1,196 words, approx. 4 pages . The word gradalis, of disputed origin, meaning a kind of serving dish, is attested in medieval Latin as early as 718. A well-known definition from ca. 1200 reads: “A gradalis, or in the Latin of Gaul gradale, is a wide dish, somewhat deep, in...
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Holy Grail Information
3,984 words, approx. 13 pages
 According to Christian mythology, the Holy Grail was the dish, plate, or cup used by Jesus at the Last Supper, said to possess miraculous powers. The connection of Joseph of Arimathea with the Grail legend dates from Robert de Boron's Joseph d'Arimathie...




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 Supply Management
for the Holy Grail
01/08/2004: 2,626 words, approx. 9 pages Radio frequency identification tags promise to allow organisations to achieve their long-held ambition of tracing everything in their supply chains, says Ray Attwood If Winston Smith had been walking through the Newmarket Road branch of Tesco in Cambridge he would not have been...
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2 authors appeal in 'Da Vinci Code' case
1/16/2007: 318 words, approx. 1 pages Two authors who failed to convince Britain's High Court that Dan Brown stole their ideas for his blockbuster novel "The Da Vinci Code" took their case to the Court of Appeal on Tuesday.Lawyers for Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh, who face a bill of more...
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Leads of the Times, Vol. 1: Sarah Silverman's Imaginary Enemies
1/30/2007: 266 words, approx. 1 pages Sarah Silverman: LOS ANGELES, Jan. 30 -- Those who know Sarah Silverman only from her much discussed star turn in the 2005 comedy film "The Aristocrats" and from her one-woman concert movie, "Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic," might bristle at the notion that another overnight...




Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Juliette Wood
9,175 words, approx. 31 pages
 In the following excerpted essay, Wood provides overviews of several Grail texts, beginning with a summary of Grail romances, their primary themes and motifs, and concluding with an examination of popular twentieth-century Grail-related material.
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Critical Essay by J. Donald Crowley and Sue Mitchell Crowley
8,369 words, approx. 28 pages
 In the following essay, the Crowleys expound on Percy's Christian vision as it is expressed in his fiction and nonfiction, noting that the author often used Arthurian motifs in his writing to embody a Southern code of Stoicism. The critics also point out that despite Percy's theological stance, he did not shy away from using the Grail quest to parody the chivalric code associated with the South.
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Critical Essay by Raymond H. Thompson
6,727 words, approx. 22 pages
 In the following essay, Thompson discusses the use of the Grail motif in modern fiction, including a brief analysis of four twentieth-century novels.


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