King Arthur, Lancelot, and the Holy Grail


Amsterdam, Biblioteca Philosophica Hermetica MS 1, ii, f. 140, Lancelot-Graal, The First Kiss
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'Short Note on MSS Rylands French 1 and Douce 215, '  Scriptorium22, 1968, 41-5.

'The Earliest Illustrated Prose Lancelot Manuscript ?'  Reading Medieval Studies3, 1977, 3-44.

'Another Short Note on Rylands French 1,' in Romanesque and Gothic, Essays for George Zarnecki, ed. N. Stratford (Bury St.Edmunds:Boydell and Brewer), 1987, 185-192.

'Some Aspects of Arthur's Death in Medieval Art,' in  The Passing of Arthur, eds. C.Baswell and W.Sharpe (New York:Garland), 1988, 52-101.

'Arthurian Art since Loomis,' Arturus Rex, II. (Acta Conventus Lovaniensis 1987), eds. W. Van Hoecke, G. Tournoy, W. Verbeke (Leuven: Leuven UP), 1991, 21-78.

'Images of Temptation, Seduction and Discovery in the Prose Lancelot: A Preliminary Note,'  Festschrift Gerhard Schmidt, Wiener Jahrbuch für Kunstgeschichte,46-47, 1993-4, 725-35.

'Illustrating Lancelot and Guinevere,' in  Lancelot and Guinevere, A Casebook, ed. Lori Walters (New York: Garland), 1996, 125-57.

In press:
'The Illustrations in the prose Lancelot,New Haven, Yale University, Beinecke MS 229 and Paris, BNF fr. 95, Prolegomena to a Comparative Study,' in Keith Busby, ed., Word and Image in Arthurian Romance(New York: Garland), 1996, 206-63.

'Les débuts de l'héraldique dans l'illustration des romans arthuriens,' in  Les Armoriaux, Cahiers du léopard d'or, ed. Hélène Loyau and Michel Pastoureau, Paris, 1997.

See also  Les Manuscrits de Chrétien de Troyes.

Research in progress:
The Lancelot-Graal Project (http://www2.lis.pitt.edu/~sochats/lance.html)


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