Composed in the early thirteenth century, Wolfram von Eschenbach\'s Parzival is the re-creation and completion of the story left unfinished by its initiator Chretien de Troyes.
As a knight serving the German nobility in the imperial Hohenstauffen period, the author was uniquely placed to describe the.
It follows Parzival from his boyhood and career as a knight in the court of King Arthur to his ultimate achievement as King of the Temple of the Grail, which Wolfram describes as a life-giving Stone.
Composed in the early thirteenth century, Wolfram von Eschenbach\'s Parzival is the re-creation and completion of the story left unfinished by its initiator Chretien de Troyes