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What is 'the question'? 'The question' the knights are supposed to ask at the castle of the grail. I must have missed it because it's constantly being referred to without further explanation.

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Please respond.

>> No.13093891

"What is the secret of the Grail?" That should have been made obvious in the chapter about Prester John.

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>>13093891
Are the knights all fucking dumb or what? Isn't that the obvious question to ask?

>> No.13093965

>>13093750
“African or European,”

The challenge of the Moor to the concept of Christendom disinherited the latins from the East and produced a two fold challenge. Geographically despite the loss of Africa most of the Latin theologians had been associated with Africa as the periphery (vide: Camus). Europe on the other hand was a backwater. Yet with the Moors conquest first of Africa and then of the Africans by heathen tax, the of hisSpain and then of the hisSpaniards by heathen tax there was only one option forced on the Franco-Latinos: become European or become nothing.

Note how grail myths come out of what is now north eastern France, the next stop threatened by Islam’s theological might? Courtly romance and appropriate surrender are the themes of the newly created European.