The Shroud and the Grail: A Modern Quest for the True Grail

by Noel Currer-Briggs

Book Overview

New York: St Martin's Press, 1988. 1st Printing, Hardbound, 8vo (about 9.5 inches tall), 241 pages. Appendices, chronology, bibliography, notes, index. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312015100
• ISBN13: 9780312015107
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Length: 241 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.

Customer Reviews

The Shroud and The Grail...

The mystery surrounding both the Shroud of Turin and the Holy Grail has never failed to excite the imagination and arouse speculation worldwide.Doubts about the authenticity of the Shroud, one of the alleged burial linens of Christ, center on the years 1204 - 1353 when it went "missing" from the pages of history after the sack of Constantinople. Noel Currer-Briggs has conducted an extensive investigation of those years to reveal how both the Shroud and the Grail passed through a network of noble and royal families into the hands of the Templars, who eventually brought them to France in the mid-thirteenth century.In THE SHROUD AND THE GRAIL the author approaches the subject from a sceptical point of view but presents startling new evidence to link the Shroud of Turin, whose history has been reliably documented from 1353 to the present, with the Shroud of the Byzantine era. He examines the controversy surrounding the identity of the Holy Grail and demonstrates how it can be associated with the reliquary casket in which the Shroud was once kept. He also shows how the Grail has been confused with the Chalice of the Last Supper, and that contrary to popular belief it was in fact widely portrayed un the iconography of the time but often misinterpreted as Christ's coffin.Mr. Currer-Briggs' many years of detective work has resulted in a book that no one interested in the Shroud or Holy Grail can afford to miss.A well-known lecturer and broadcaster in Britain and the United States, Noel Currer-Briggs is a former Chairman and Founder Member of the Association of Genealogists and Record Agents and a Fellow of the Society of Genealogists.