Article: Prophecy and the Quest for the Holy Grail: Critiquing Knowledge in the Vulgate Cycle.(Review)

Kathryn Karczewska, Prophecy and the Quest for the Holy Grail: Critiquing Knowledge in the Vulgate Cycle, Studies in the Humanities 37 (New York: Peter Lang, 1998). xvi + 208 pp. ISBN 0-8204-3852-9. $51.95.

This book takes as its starting point that prophecy is the language of the absolute within human experience and argues that it is therefore less a narrative strategy of the Grail quest than its very subject, the disclosure of the sacred within profane textuality. It aims to reformulate prophecy's narrative function in the Vulgate Cycle and to relate this functional reformulation of sacred language to the generation of clerical authority in the Middle Ages. It ...

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