The counter-Arthurian piracy of Jack Spicer’s Holy Grail

2025/03/01 by Daniel Sawyer · 1 voice
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies #Freedom of Expression and Defamation #Japanese History and Culture

paper · pdf · doi:10.1057/s41280-025-00362-5

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Abstract

Abstract This Noted document brings to scholarly attention the existence of a 1969 pirate edition of Jack Spicer’s Holy Grail . It explores archaising book production choices in the first, authorised edition of The Holy Grail . It then describes the pirated edition, showing how the pirates reflected and reinforced the medievalising aspects of Spicer’s original text.

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