Lecture 1. Chrétien de Troyes's Story of the Grail, or Perceval: Part I -- Lecture 2. Chrétien de Troyes's Story of the Grail, or Perceval: Part II -- Lecture 3. The prose trilogy based on Rober de Boron's Grail poems: Joseph of Arimathea, Merlin, and Perceval -- Lecture 4. The Lancelot-Grail version of The quest of the Holy Grail -- Lecture 5. Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival -- Lecture 6. Alfred Lord Tennyson's Idylls of the king and Richard Wagner's opera Parsifal -- Lecture 7. Scholarship in the 19th and 20th centuries -- Lecture 8. Jessie Weston's From ritual to romance -- Lecture 9. T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land -- Lecture 10. Charles Williams's War in Heaven -- Lecture 11. Marion Zimmer Bradley's The mists of Avalon -- Lecture 12. A quintet of Grail films -- Lecture 13. Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, and Henry Lincoln's Holy blood, Holy Grail and Dan Brown's The Da Vinci code -- Lecture 14. Umberto Eco's Foucault's pendulum. ( )