Pattern Judgment Cleanness by Morse Charlotte (9 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair.

First Edition. Near fine copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Minor library marks remain (internally). Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; x, 238 pages ; 23 cm. Contents; The Paradigm of the Vessel as an Image of Man -- Vessels as Images of Man -- The Vessel of Wrath: Adultery, Idolatry, and Murder -- The Concept of Sacrilege -- The Vessel of Mercy: Ritual Purity -- Christian Banquet: Rite of Fellowship and Rite of Marriage -- The Queste del Saint Graal and Malory's Tale of the Sankgreal -- The History of Lancelot: Key to the Relationship of the Sankgreal to the Queste -- Call to the Quest for the Grail: A Search for Meaning -- The Typology of Eve: Lancelot and Perceval -- The Typology of Cain and Abel: Gawain and Bors -- The Adventure of Solomon's Ship: Return to Eden and Fulfillment of History -- The Climax of the quest: The Grail Visions and Eschatological Marriage -- Cleanness -- The Structure of History in Cleanness -- The Wedding Feast in Cleanness: Prologue to the Poem and Epilogue to History -- Lucifer, Adam, and Nebuchadnezzar: Problems of Fall and Redemption -- The Evidence of History: Noah and the Flood -- The Evidence of History: Abraham and Lot, Sodom and Gomorrah -- The Christ-event: The Center of History -- The Evidence of History: Sedecias and Belshazzar as Polluted Vessels -- Epilogue. Subjects; Queste del Saint Graal. Arthurian romances History and criticism. Grail Legends. 3 Kg.

First Edition. Near fine copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Minor library marks remain (internally). Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; x, 238 pages ; 23 cm. Contents; The Paradigm of the Vessel as an Image of Man -- Vessels as Images of Man -- The Vessel of Wrath: Adultery, Idolatry, and Murder -- The Concept of Sacrilege -- The Vessel of Mercy: Ritual Purity -- Christian Banquet: Rite of Fellowship and Rite of Marriage -- The Queste del Saint Graal and Malory's Tale of the Sankgreal -- The History of Lancelot: Key to the Relationship of the Sankgreal to the Queste -- Call to the Quest for the Grail: A Search for Meaning -- The Typology of Eve: Lancelot and Perceval -- The Typology of Cain and Abel: Gawain and Bors -- The Adventure of Solomon's Ship: Return to Eden and Fulfillment of History -- The Climax of the quest: The Grail Visions and Eschatological Marriage -- Cleanness -- The Structure of History in Cleanness -- The Wedding Feast in Cleanness: Prologue to the Poem and Epilogue to History -- Lucifer, Adam, and Nebuchadnezzar: Problems of Fall and Redemption -- The Evidence of History: Noah and the Flood -- The Evidence of History: Abraham and Lot, Sodom and Gomorrah -- The Christ-event: The Center of History -- The Evidence of History: Sedecias and Belshazzar as Polluted Vessels -- Epilogue. Subjects; Queste del Saint Graal. Arthurian romances History and criticism. Grail Legends. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. 238pp. Foxed edges else very good plus condition with text clean and binding sound in a lightly sunned dust jacket which is now in a clear protective mylar sleeve.

x. + 238pp. 8vo One black & white diagram. Russet cloth. Ex-library, else NF/no dj.

Columbia, London, 1978. Cloth with dustjacket. x,238 pp.

First edition. 8vo ( 222mm. ) Pp. x,238. A clean copy save for underlining and marginalia by Professor Fanni Bogdanow. Dust wrapper a little faded on the spine and with a few closed tears. From the Library of the late Professor Fanni Bogdanow ( 1928 - 2013 ) Arthurian Scholar and Lecturer in French in the University of Manchester.

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MORSE, Charlotte C. THE PATTERN OF JUDGMENT IN THE QUESTE AND CLEANNESS. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1978. 8vo., red cloth in dust jacket. First Edition. A critical reading of "The Quest of Saint Graat" and "Cleanness"- both medieval works that urge men to repent so that the day of judgment will be joyful. Signed presentation from Morse on a front blank page: "For Hugh, whose fellowship delights his fellows, with much love, Charlotte." Near fine; very minor chipping & short tears (moderate tanning) d/j. $85.00.