![]() ![]() ![]() As a knight serving the German nobility in the imperial Hohenstauffen period, the author was uniquely placed to describe the zest and colour of his hero's world, with dazzling depictions of courtly luxury, jousting and adventure. It follows Parzival from his boyhood and career as a knight in the court of King Arthur to his ultimate achievement as King of the Temple of the Grail, which Wolfram describes as a life-giving Stone. Composed in the early thirteenth century, Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival is the re-creation and completion of the story left unfinished by its initiator Chrétien de Troyes. This edition also includes a glossary, an 'Introduction to a Second Reading' and further reading. Hatto's translation conveys the bold exuberance and complexities of 'Parzival', the great German poem on the Holy Grail, while Hatto's foreword examines the genre of medieval Grail Romances. ![]()
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