Table of Contents
About the Collected Works of Joseph Campbell vii
Editor's Foreword ix
Acknowledgments xxi
Part 1 Foundations and Backgrounds of the Grail Romances
Chapter 1 Neolithic, Celtic, Roman, and German Backgrounds 3
Chapter 2 Irish Christianity: Saints Brendan and Patrick 13
Chapter 3 Theology, Love, Troubadours, and Minnesingers 23
Part 2 Knights in Quest
Chapter 4 Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival 35
Gahmuret 36
Parzival 39
Gawain 63
Feirefiz 74
Oriental Reflections on Wolfram's Parzival 81
Chapter 5 Tristan and Iseult 95
Origins and Transmission of the Tristan Story 109
Horses, Pigs, and Dragons: King Mark and Tristan 115
Japanese and South African Reflections in the Tristan Story 122
Chapter 6 The Knights of the Round Table 127
Arthur 127
Galahad, Bors, and Perceval 134
Lancelot 137
Yvain 140
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 142
Part 3 Themes and Motifs
Chapter 7 The Waste Land 149
Enchantment and Disenchantment 152
The Anointed King 155
The Wound 157
The Fisher King 160
The Grail 162
Avalon 168
Appendix A "A Study of the Dolorous Stroke" 171
Appendix B Joseph Campbell's Library: Works on the Arthurian Romances of the Middle Ages 236
Notes 243
Illustration Sources 251
A Joseph Campbell Bibliography 254
Index 257
About the Author 274
About the Joseph Campbell Foundation 276