Medieval Grail Literature

• Chrétien de Troyes — Perceval, or the Story of the Grail
• Wolfram von Eschenbach — Parzival
• Robert de Boron — Joseph d’Arimathie
• The Vulgate Cycle (Lancelot-Grail)

Grail Symbolism and Esoteric Interpretation

• Julius Evola — The Mystery of the Grail
• René Guénon — Symbols of Sacred Science
• Ananda K. Coomaraswamy — The Christian and Oriental Philosophy of Art

Sacred Kingship and Royal Bloodlines

• James George Frazer — The Golden Bough
• Ernst Kantorowicz — The King’s Two Bodies
• Georges Dumézil — Myth and Epic

Merovingian Dynasty and Frankish Kingship

• Ian Wood — The Merovingian Kingdoms
• Patrick Geary — Before France and Germany
• Régine Le Jan — Family and Power in the Frankish World

Mary Magdalene, Provençal Tradition, and Lineage

• Victor Saxer — The Cult of Mary Magdalene in the West
• Philippe Walter — Graal, the Celtic Myth of the Grail
• Laurence Gardner — Bloodline of the Holy Grail

Genealogy, Memory, and Transmission

• Christian Settipani — Continuity of the Senatorial Families of the Roman Empire
• Georges Duby — The Knight, the Lady and the Priest
• Michel Rouche — Clovis