Grail; Medieval Writers Invented Quest for the Holy Vessel
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, April 4, 2004
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...Late in the 12th century, the French writer...first mention in literature of a "Grail...the next eight centuries, an astonishing...medieval life and literature and author of...a hidden code, etc.) but always...in the 19th and 20th centuries, influenced...sensational Grail theories of recent years...calls "fictional history" by Michael Baigent...every modern Grail theory, story or film...as history or as criticism), to the panoply...of the Grail in literature, but the study...perhaps be called literatures ur-MacGuffin...