Philippe Walter: “The Holy Grail is a formidable fantasy machine” The medievalist emphasizes that this relic linked to Christ does not exist outside of the literary texts which made it, then celebrated until the end of the Middle Ages. He successively published Ruodlieb, a Latin tale from the 11th century.

An ancestor of the tale of the Grail, which he translated with Joël Thomas. The Grail, a medieval creation (Gisserot Éditions), and Yvain and Lancelot, illustrated by Pre-Raphaelite painting.