The Holy Grail : Its Origins, Secrets and Meaning Revealed
by Malcolm Godwin
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0747516626
- ISBN 13
- 9780747516620
- Seller
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About This Item
Bloomsbury, London, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Hardcover. 255 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Bloomsbury, London, 1994. First Edition. *** CONDITION: The book itself is in very good condition and comes in good dust jacket. More specifically: Edges of boards have superficial wear. Dust jacket has light creasing. Edges of dust jacket have moderate wear. Dust jacket is unclipped. Pages are clean and unmarked and in excellent condition except for light foxing to top edge of pages. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: Twelfth-century Europe was a time of unprecedented spiritual awakening. The Crusades to the Holy Land had returned with new esoteric secrets from the East. The Cathars were challenging the authority of a divided and corrupt Church of Rome, and women were at last accorded a new power and position, forming their own Courts of Love. Out of this extraordinary new age arose a legend which was to surpass all previous Western myths - that of a mystical object known as the Holy Grail and a knightly Quest in search of it. Between 1190 and 1220, there was an outpouring of stories about this sacred artifact. Deemed heretical by the Church and yet said to hold the blood of the crucified Christ, the Grail chalice was supposedly brought to Britain two thousand years ago. And although the legend is set in the Arthurian Britain of the sixth century, tradition traces the cup of the Last Supper to a Cathar stronghold in the Pyrenees, under the guardianship of the Knights of the Temple of Jerusalem. The legend of the Holy Grail is not one story, but many, and this book explores the major and very different accounts which appeared within a thirty year period. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Myths, Legends & Folklore; ISBN: 0747516626. ISBN/EAN: 9780747516620. Inventory No: 24020058.. 9780747516620
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- Bookseller
- Manyhills Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 24020058
- Title
- The Holy Grail : Its Origins, Secrets and Meaning Revealed
- Author
- Malcolm Godwin
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0747516626
- ISBN 13
- 9780747516620
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1994
- Keywords
- BZDB5 Myths, Legends & Folklore; The Holy Grail : Its Origins, Secrets and Meaning Revealed
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- Myths, Legends & Folklore;
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