Margarita Torres Sevilla
Autore di Kings of the Grail: Tracing the Historic Journey of the Holy Grail from Jerusalem to Spain
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Opere di Margarita Torres Sevilla
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Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1969-04-06
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- Spain
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- Opere
- 2
- Utenti
- 42
- Popolarità
- #357,757
- Voto
- 4.5
- Recensioni
- 1
- ISBN
- 8
- Lingue
- 1
In short, authors Torres Sevilla and Ortega del Río trace the route of the grail from Jerusalem to Spain through Muslim hands. They give a convincing account of early Christian pilgrims in Jerusalem who viewed the grail. They then trace it through Muslim hands, based on some parchments discovered Cairo's University of Al-Azhar. The grail was given as a gift from the caliph of the Fatimid dynasty in Jerusalem to the Muslim emir of Dénia in Spain as reward for helping the Fatimid's through a famine. The emir of Dénia then gave it as a gift to Ferdinand I, king of León, as a peace offering. It then went into the hands of his daughter, Doña Urraca of Zamora.
The authors make an interesting and convincing case for the shape of this cup, more of a dish or bowl actually, is old and can be traced to to the Fatimid caliphate. Is it as old as Jesus and the cup he used? Who knows. I would love to see some peer-reviewed analysis of these parchments and other sources, because it almost sounds too good. The authors also show how Doña Urraca and her successors could have engendered elements of the later grail legendarium.
An interesting addition to the literature on the Holy Grail.… (altro)