Eternal Chalice: The Grail in Literature and Legend

Lecture 1. Chretien de Troyes's Story of the Grail, or Perceval, Part I

Lecture 2. Chretien de Troyes's Story of the Grail, or Perceval, Part II

Lecture 3. The prose trilogy based on Robert de Boron's Grail poems: Joseph of Arimathea, Merlin and Perceval

Lecture 4. The Lancelot-Grail version of The quest of the Holy Grail

Lecture 5. Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival

Lecture 6. Alfred Lord Tennyson's Idylls of the king and Richard Wagner's opera Parsifal

Lecture 7. Scholarship in the 19th and 20th centuries

Lecture 8. Jessie Weston's From ritual to romance

Lecture 9. T.S. Eliot's The waste land

Lecture 10. Charles Williams's War in heaven

Lecture 11. Marion Zimmer Bradley's The mists of Avalon

Lecture 12. A quintet of Grail films

Lecture 13. Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh and Henry Lincoln's Holy blood, holy Grail and Dan Brown's The Da Vinci code

Lecture 14. Umberto Eco's Foucault's pendulum.