The Grail, Sinclair.
Posted September 7th, 2012 at 02:36 PM by AlpinLuke
In some modern versions of the myth of the Grail [Graal] the Sinclair family has been connected with this symbol in many ways.
Probably what is intriguing is that a member of this family has got historical interests and so he has written a work just about the symbol of the Grail during history.
Useless to ask him if his family preserves the Grail [as it's obvious].
Andrew Sinclair is graduated in American history at Cambridge [after studies at Oxford and Harvard]. Now he is among the members of the Churchill College [Cambridge].
His most known works are
The Sword and the Grail [1992]
The Discovery of the Grail [1997]
I'm now reading The Discovery of the Grail and I found it quite a good work.
Probably what is intriguing is that a member of this family has got historical interests and so he has written a work just about the symbol of the Grail during history.
Useless to ask him if his family preserves the Grail [as it's obvious].
Andrew Sinclair is graduated in American history at Cambridge [after studies at Oxford and Harvard]. Now he is among the members of the Churchill College [Cambridge].
His most known works are
The Sword and the Grail [1992]
The Discovery of the Grail [1997]
I'm now reading The Discovery of the Grail and I found it quite a good work.
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Chretien, the bards, and Bernardo, the Knights of the Grail
Sinclair in his works sustain an interesting approach to the symbol of the Grail.
In good substance he says that the myth came also from the involvement of existing figures or new figures created in the period when the legend of the Grail came out. Figures who seemed to be created just for that ... the Templars.
The existing figures were the bards who are put in a position of preeminence by Chretién de Troyes. In a certain sense he gives legitimation to the tale of the Grail connecting it with the world of the tales that the courts heard and with the personages who carried those tales around Christianity.
Then, Bernardo di Chiaravalle came to give legitimation and identity to a new figure: the religious Knight, the fighting monk. The Knight of the Temple was identified with the "Knight of the Grail" since the age of the Minnesaenger like Von Eschenbach.Posted September 8th, 2012 at 12:30 AM by AlpinLuke
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Gawain
On the German side we all know the work of Wolfram von Eschenbach, author of the "Parzival" in which we note the figure of a personage: Gawain.
Useless to remind that the inspiration for the Parzival came from Chrétien de Troyes [Wolfram copies also the structure of the poem of the French author].
Gawain is a Knight of the court of King Arthur, also relative of the King, [symbolic group, like symbolic is the Grail]. He is presented as the best one among the Knights, he is son of Arthur's sister Morgause and King Lot.
The characteristics of this personage are particular:
* he's a great warrior
* his loyalty is above suspicion
* he takes force from the sun [he becomes weak after the sunset]
* he knows herbs and natural medicine, he's a great healer
* he defends poor individuals, women [he is at service of]
* he is great friend of young Knight
My personal opinion is that Gawain is the prototype of personages of Knighthood like the "Sun Knights".Posted September 11th, 2012 at 10:50 PM by AlpinLuke
