The legend of Longinus in ecclesiastical tradition and in English literature
Subtitle: and its connection with the Grail
Publisher: J. H. Furst
Published: 1911
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 221
Table of contents: title: CONTENTS; title: Introduction 1; title: Chapter I. The Bible and Ecclesiastical Tradition 5; title: 1. Longinus in the Apocrypha  6; title: 2. The Testimony of the Fathers  10; title: 3. Martyrologies, Earlier and Later  12; title: 4. Other Writers  22; title: Chapter II. The Legend of Longinus a Fictitious Narrative. 27; title: 1. Name 27; title: 2. The Acts of Longinus 31; title: 3. The Blindness of Longinus  37; title: Chapter III. Longinus in Art 44; title: Chapter IV. The Lance of Longinus as Sacred Relic and in the Liturgy 56; title: 1. The Lance as Sacred Relic  56; title: 2. Longinus and the Liturgy  62; title: Chapter V. Longinus in Charms 72; title: Chapter VI. Longinus in English Literature  80; title: 1. Homilies and Homiletic Treatises  83; title: 2. The Gospel of Nuodemus 87; title: 3. The Cursor Mundi 92; title: 4. The South English Legendary 93; title: 5. The "Northern Passion"  96; title: 6. Other Poems on the Passion  100; title: 7. The Hours of the Cross 103; title: 8. Saint Edmund's Speculum  106; title: 9. English Meditations Derived from Bonaventura. 107; title: 10. Marian Laments 110; title: 11. Religious Lyrics 115; title: 12. The Fifteen Signs before the Day of Judgment. 119; title: 13. Piers Plowman 121; title: 14. Chaucer 123; title: 15. Lydgate 123; title: 16. A Lollard Creed 126; title: 17. Romances Exclusive of the Grail 127; title: 18. The Drama 131; title: CHAPTER VII. LONGINUS AND THE BALDE LEGEND 142; title: 1. The Difficulty of Chronology  146; title: 2. The Gosforth Cross 147; title: 3. The Odin Story  151; title: 4. Frazer's Explanation of the Balde Myth 155; title: 5. Kauffmann's Theory 157; title: 6. The Blind Spearman 160; title: Chapter VIII. The Lance of Longinus and the Grail 166; title: 1. Survey of Testimony  166; title: 2. Pagan Color in the Grail Story  170; title: I. The Theory of Professor A. C. L. Brown 172; title: 1. Celtic Marvellous Weapons and the Bleeding Lance 172; title: 2. The Shining Lance and the Spear of Longinus 177; title: 3. The Bleeding Lance and the Spear of Longinus. 181; title: 4. The Poisonous and Destructive Lance and the Spear of Longinus  189; title: 5. The Christian Spear a Symbol of Destruction  and of Peace  191; title: 6. The Christian Bleeding Lance in Art and in the Drama 193; title: II. The Theories of Professor Nilze and Miss Weston 195; title: 1. Professor Nitze and the Celtic Theory 195; title: 2. Agrarian Bites as an Explanation of the Grail Ceremony 197; title: 3. Connection between Early Liturgy and Bites of the Mysteries 200; title: 4. Elements Common to Grail Bites, Mysteries, and Liturgy 203; title: III. The Grail Rite 206; title: 1. The Grail Procession 206; title: 2. Other Ritualistic Points 213; title: 3. The Fisher King 217