Lancelot-Grail: The death of Arthur

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Boydell & Brewer Ltd, 2010 - 150
The most comprehensive account of the story of Arthur, the Round Table and the Grail is to he found in the work known as Lancelot-Grail or the litigate Cycle. It tells the story of the Arthurian world from the events of the Crucifixion, where the Grail originated, to the death of Lancelot after the destruction of the Round Table. It draws in many different strands, from the pseudo-historical stories about Arthur to the romances of chivalric adventure and the spiritual quest for the Grail. It consists of five works: the longest is Lancelot, a kind of chivalric history of the Round Table, which leads into the quest for the Grail and Arthur's death. The first two books were added later, and provide an account of events through Arthur's marriage and early military victories. Not long after the cycle was completed, another writer retained the first two books of the Vulgate Cycle but recast the last three books with a rather different emphasis; this version is known as the --
 

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the death oF arthur 1 aftermath of Grail Quest The Tournament at Winchester
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Suspicion That lancelot loves a Woman other Than Guenevere
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Return to Camelot The Queen Convinced of Lancelots Infidelity
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maiden of escalot rebuffed by lancelot lancelot found by Bors
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arthurs Discovery of Paintings Depicting lancelots love for the Queen
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Lancelot Rebuffed by Guenevere Borss Reflections on the Perfidy of Women
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a Knight Poisoned by the Queen lancelot Wounded by a hunter
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The Queen accused of murder The Body of the maiden of escalot Discovered at Camelot
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Battle Between arthurs forces and lancelots
73
The Popes Intervention lancelots Decision to leave logres
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lancelots Departure from logres arthurs attack on lancelot
85
mordreds Plan The Queens retreat to a Tower
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lancelots Decision to meet Gawain in Battle
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The Battle Between lancelot and Gawain explanation of Gawains Strength
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arthurs Battle against the romans
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arthurs march on mordred The Queens flight to a Convent
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lancelots Plans to Defend the Queen
50
lancelot Comes to Court and Defeats mador
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entrapment of lancelot and the Queen by agravain
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The Queen Condemned to Death but rescued by lancelot
64
Grief for Gawains Brothers arthurs Declaration of War on lancelot
68
Deaths of Gawain and of the lady of Beloe
113
The Battle of Salisbury Plain
116
The Death of King arthur
126
Battle with mordreds Sons Deaths of the Queen and of lancelot
130
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Professor Norris J. Lacy is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of French and Medieval Studies at Pennsylvania State University, USA.

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