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    "name": "Holy Grail Romances",
    "stream": "western-european",
    "epoch_reflected": "greco-latin",
    "epoch_written": "greco-latin",
    "form": "esoteric romance",
    "tradition": "Christian-esoteric",
    "year_approx": 1200,
    "note": "Two of the major medieval grail romances. Wolfram's *Parzival* (c. 1210) is the Middle High German verse epic of Parzival's search for the grail; the *High History of the Holy Graal* (*Perlesvaus*, c. 1210) is an anonymous Old French prose continuation foregrounding the mystical-Christian initiation theme.",
    "steiner_loci": [
      "GA 149: Christ and the Spiritual World: Of the Search for the Holy Grail (1913)",
      "GA 264: From the Contents of the Esoteric School — Grail symbolism"
    ]
  },
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      "slug": "parzival",
      "name": "Parzival",
      "author": "Wolfram von Eschenbach",
      "year_approx": 1210,
      "translator": "Jessie L. Weston, 1894",
      "form": "Middle High German verse epic",
      "subtitle": null,
      "blurb": "Wolfram von Eschenbach's c. 1210 Middle High German verse epic — the most theologically dense of the Grail romances, with the Grail as a stone (*lapsit exillis*) tended by a hereditary lineage. Basis of Wagner's *Parsifal*. Jessie L. Weston's 1894 prose translation.",
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      "word_count": 236103,
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      "slug": "high-history-of-the-holy-graal",
      "name": "High History of the Holy Graal",
      "author": "Anonymous (*Perlesvaus*)",
      "year_approx": 1210,
      "translator": "Sebastian Evans, 1898",
      "form": "Old French prose romance",
      "subtitle": null,
      "blurb": "Anonymous Old French *Perlesvaus*, c. 1210 — a prose Grail romance foregrounding mystical-Christian initiation themes more explicitly than the verse romances. Sebastian Evans's 1898 translation, with his interpretive introduction.",
      "chapter_count": 36,
      "word_count": 157990,
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