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Percival [Fictitious character] --- Perceval: continuations

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The mysterious and haunting Grail makes its first appearance in literature in Chrétien de Troyes' Perceval at the end of the twelfth century. But Chrétien never finished his poem, leaving an unresolved story and an incomplete picture of the Grail. It was, however, far too attractive an idea to leave. Not only did it inspire quite separate works; his own unfinished poem was continued and finally completed by no fewer than four other writers. The Complete Story of the Grail is the first ever translation of the whole of the rich and compelling body of tales contained in Chrétien's poem and its four Continuations, which are finally attracting the scholarly attention they deserve. Besides Chrétien's original text, there are the anonymous First Continuation (translated here in its fullest version), the Second Continuation attributed to Wauchier de Denain, and the intriguing Third and Fourth Continuations - probably written simultaneously, with no knowledge of each other's work - by Manessier and Gerbert de Montreuil. Two other poets were drawn to create preludes explaining the background to Chrétien's story, and translated here also are their works: The Elucidation Prologue and Bliocadran. Only in this, The Story of the Grail's complete form, can the reader appreciate the narrative skill and invention of the medieval poets and their surprising responses to Chrétien's theme - not least their crucial focus on the knight as a crusader. Equally, Chrétien's original poem was almost always copied in conjunction with one or more of the Continuations, so this translation represents how most medieval readers would have encountered it. Nigel Bryant's previous translations from Medieval French include Perlesvaus - the High Book of the Grail, Robert de Boron's trilogy Merlin and the Grail, the Medieval Romance of Alexander, The True Chronicles of Jean le Bel and Perceforest.

Arthurian romances --- History and criticism. --- Perceval (Legendary character) --- Grail --- Arthurian romances. --- Legends. --- Chrétien, --- Romances --- Arthurian Legend. --- Chrétien de Troyes. --- Continuations. --- Gerbert de Montreuil. --- Grail. --- Knights. --- Manessier. --- Medieval Poem. --- Nigel Bryant. --- Perceval. --- Rich Tales. --- Unresolved Story.

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Chrétien de Troyes's late twelfth-century Conte du Graal has inspired writers and scholars from the moment of its composition to the present day. The challenge represented by its unfinished state was quickly taken up, and over the next fifty years the romance was supplemented by a number of continuations and prologues, which eventually came to dwarf Chrétien's text. In one of the first studies to treat the Conte du Graal and its continuations as a unified work, Thomas Hinton considers the whole corpus as a narrative cycle. Through a combination of close textual readings and manuscript analysis, the author argues that the unity of the narrative depends on a balanced tension between centripetal and centrifugal dynamics. He traces how the authors, scribes and illuminators of the cycle worked to produce coherence, even as they contended with potentially disruptive forces: multiple authorship, differences of intention, and changes in the relation between text, audience and book. Finally, he tackles the long-held orthodoxy that places the Perceval Continuations on the margins of literary history. Widening the scope of enquiry to consider the corpus's influence on thirteenth-century verse romances, this study re-situates the Conte du Graal cycle as a vital element in the evolution of Arthurian literature. Thomas Hinton is Junior Research Fellow in Modern Languages at Jesus College, Oxford.

Perceval (Legendary character) --- Arthurian romances --- Grail --- French literature --- Perceval (Personnage légendaire) --- Cycle d'Arthur --- Graal --- Littérature française --- Romances --- History and criticism. --- Legends --- Romans courtois --- Histoire et critique --- Légendes --- Chrétien, --- History and criticism --- Chretien, --- Perceval (Personnage légendaire) --- Littérature française --- Légendes --- Chrétien, --- Perceval --- Percival --- Parzifal --- Parzival --- Parsifal --- Peredur --- Parsival --- Perleuaulx --- Perlevaulx --- Perlesvaus --- Perceval (Legendary character) - Romances - History and criticism --- Arthurian romances - History and criticism --- Grail - Legends - History and criticism --- French literature - To 1500 - History and criticism --- Chretien, - de Troyes, - active 12th century. - Perceval le Gallois --- Arthurian literature. --- Chrétien de Troyes. --- Conte du Graal Cycle. --- Continuations. --- French Arthurian Romance. --- Perceval. --- narrative cycle. --- thirteenth-century verse romances.