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Gemstone of Paradise This page intentionally left blank Gemstone of Paradise The Holy Grail in Wolfram’s Parzival g. ronald murphy, s.j. 1 2006 1 OxfordUniversityPress,Inc.,publishesworksthatfurther OxfordUniversity’sobjectiveofexcellence inresearch,scholarship,andeducation. Oxford NewYork Auckland CapeTown DaresSalaam HongKong Karachi KualaLumpur Madrid Melbourne MexicoCity Nairobi NewDelhi Shanghai Taipei Toronto Withofficesin Argentina Austria Brazil Chile CzechRepublic France Greece Guatemala Hungary Italy Japan Poland Portugal Singapore SouthKorea Switzerland Thailand Turkey Ukraine Vietnam Copyright(cid:1)2006byOxfordUniversityPress,Inc. PublishedbyOxfordUniversityPress,Inc. 198MadisonAvenue,NewYork,NewYork10016 www.oup.com OxfordisaregisteredtrademarkofOxfordUniversityPress Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthispublicationmaybereproduced, storedinaretrievalsystem,ortransmitted,inanyformorbyanymeans, electronic,mechanical,photocopying,recording,orotherwise, withoutthepriorpermissionofOxfordUniversityPress. LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Murphy,G.Ronald,1938– Gemstoneofparadise:theHolyGrailinWolfram’sParzival/ G.RonaldMurphy. p.cm. Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ISBN-13978-0-19-530639-2 ISBN0-19-530639-2 1. Wolfram,vonEschenbach,12thcent.Parzival. 2. Grail— Romances—Historyandcriticism. I. Title. PT1688.M872006 831'.21—dc222005027731 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica onacid-freepaper To Madelyn Willoughby Murphy my mother and to my four families This page intentionally left blank Acknowledgments ResearchingtheGrailisaquestthatbringsoneintocontactwith manyhelpingfiguresalongtheway,somewholivedlongago,some wholivenow,somenear,andsomefaraway.IhopeIcanexpressa tokenofmygratitudeherefortheassistanceIreceivedinarrivingat thegoalofthisquestbymentioningafewnames.Letmebeginin Europe.IwouldliketothankBrunoKochandthepersonnelofthe Muse´esRoyauxinBrusselswhogavemeeasyaccesstotheTreasury withitspricelessreliquariesandportablealtars.InBamberg,Iam gratefultoWalterMilutzki,DirectoroftheDio¨zesanMuseum,who actedasmyguideandletmeexamineandphotographbothoftheir portablealtars,whilehewasatthesametimeattemptingtodirect theoverflowcrowdcomingtoviewaspecialexhibitionofBamberg’s medievaltreasures.InSiegburg,attheTreasuryofSt.Servatius,I wasgivenleavetoexaminetheirholdingsandtreatedtoaspecial showingofdrawersanddrawersofpreciousmedievalcloth.Aspe- cialthankyougoestotheparishcouncilofSt.Servatiusforarrang- ingphotographyformeandforgrantingpermissiontousethere- sults.ThroughallofthistraveltheJesuitsoftheHochschuleSankt GeorgeninFrankfurtgavemeacomfortableplacetocallhome base. InWashington,IamgratefultoGeorgetownUniversityforgiv- ingmeleavetofinishthisproject,toitsJesuitCommunityforgiv- ingenthusiasticencouragement,andtoLauingerLibrary’sinterli- braryloanstafffordoingtheirownsuccessfulquestingonmy viii acknowledgments behalf.Agreatdealoftheresearchforthisbookwasdoneduringasabbatical, duringwhichtimeIwasespeciallyhelpedbyPrincetonUniversity’scollection ofmedievalGermanauthorsattheFirestoneLibrary,aswellasbytheholdings in medieval art of Princeton’s Marquand Library. The proximity of the two librariestooneanotherononecampusisamostwelcomeboonforthescholar. In nearby Hamilton, New Jersey, I once again made use of the Hamilton Li- brary’s quiet room to complete many chapters of this book. St. Joseph’sUni- versityinPhiladelphiagraciouslyassistedmeinthecompletionofthisproject bythegenerousawardoftheMacLeanChair,forwhichIamverygrateful. I am delighted to be able once again to acknowledge the support and encouragement of Cynthia Read of Oxford University Press. Her experience, competence,andenthusiasmareoneofthemostwelcomepartsofpresenting a manuscript to her for publication. She makes it a gratifying experience for anauthortoworkwithaneditor.Iamdeeplygratefultohernowforthefourth time. I owe a special debt to her patient assistant, Julia TerMaat. I would like to thank also Oxford’s anonymous readers for their suggestions, both critical andpositive.Manyofthesuggestionshavebeenadopted,totheenhancement of the book. I am particularly indebted to the anonymous reader who con- stantly, and positively, considered the manuscript from the pointof viewof it beinga pleasure.Thankyou.Twootherreadersvolunteeredtoreadtheman- uscriptpriortoitssubmissioninanattempttoheadoffmyvariousslipsand typos.AspecialthankyouforthisselflessservicegoestoJamesWalsh,S.J.,of GeorgetownUniversity,andtomyformerstudentJenniferNiedermeyer. It is hard to express sufficient gratitude to Bonnie Wheeler of Southern MethodistUniversity,whoataconferenceofmedievalistsinsistedonreading thewholemanuscriptoneeveninginonefellswoop.Herimmediatelyenthu- siasticreactionandherinsightfuldiscussionofthethesisthefollowingmorn- ingwasasupportthattheauthorwillneverforget. I would like to thank Vintage Books, of Random House, for numerous citationsoftheirEnglishversionofParzival,translatedbyHelenMustardand Charles Passage. For translations of Scripture into English, I have generally reliedontheRevisedStandardVersion(RSV)andtheNewInternationalVer- sion(NIV).TranslationsoftheOldLatinaremine.Forillustrationsandviews of the Holy Sepulcher and for carefully researched information on the stone of the burial couch, I would like to thank Professor Martin Biddle of Oxford University. I am further grateful to many sources for the illustrativematerial foundinthisbook.AmongthosetobeacknowledgedaretheCentredesmon- umentsnationaux,Paris;Bildarchiv-Monheim;ProfessorWaltherK.Stoitzner and the Chorherrenstift Klosterneuburg;TheVaticanLibrary;MichaelThuns and LVR-Rheinisches Amt fu¨r Denkmalpflege; The PierpontMorganLibrary, acknowledgments ix New York; The Conway Library, Courtauld Institute of Art, London; The Bridgeman Art Library, New York; Ko¨nemann Verlagsgesellschaft, Cologne; and The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. Once again, a very special word of thanks goes to the Dio¨zesan Museum in Bamberg and to the parish council ofSt.ServatiusinSiegburgforgivingmepermissionfortheuseofreproduc- tions and for providing me with more detailed photographs of the portable altarsintheircare—aswellasforbeingsohelpfultoavisitingscholar. Lastlyawordofthankstomymother,whohelpedmenotonlybyproviding awarmandcomfortableplacetoworkbutevenbyvolunteeringtocorrectmy manuscript, from which task she was only dissuaded by a lack of medieval GermanandLatin.Shehelpedbypatientlywatchingmegooninthequest.
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