A new study of the continuations to Chr tien's Conte du Graal shows their crucial influence on the development of Arthurian literature. Chr tien de Troyes's late twelfth-century Conte du Graal has inspired writers and scholars from the moment of its composition to the present day. The challenge represented by its unfinished state was quickly taken up, and over the next fifty years the romance was supplemented by a number of continuations and...