The Finding of the Grail: Retold from Old French Sources

This retelling of the Medieval Grail legend presents a unified version, based on orginal texts, of the hero Perceval's quest. The text is illustrated with 34 miniatures from 13th- and 14th-century manuscripts, offering a concise version of a fascinating myth.

Patricia Terry has taught French and comparative literature at Barnard College and at the University of California, San Diego. Her translations of medieval texts include The Song of Roland, Poems of the Elder Edda, The Honeysuckle and the Hazel Tree, and Renard the Fox.

Nancy Vine Durling has taught French and comparative literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton. She is the editor of Jean Renart and the Art of Romance: Essays on Guillaume de Dole (UPF, 1997) and the cotranslator (with Patricia Terry) of The Romance of the Rose, or Guillaume de Dole by Jean Renart.