Holy Blood, Holy Grail Illustrated Edition: The Secret History of Jesus, the Shocking Legacy of the Grail
 

Holy Blood, Holy Grail Illustrated Edition: The Secret History of Jesus, the Shocking Legacy of the Grail

by Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, HENRY LINCOLN

Michael Baigent, Henry Lincoln, and Richard Leigh, authors of The Messianic Legacy, spent over 10 years on their own kind of quest for the Holy Grail, into the secretive history of early France. What they found, researched with the tenacity and attention to detail that befits any great quest, is a tangled and intricate story of politics and faith that reads like a mystery novel. It is the story... (read more)

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Dr. J. G.
  • Rated 4 stars

Beginning with some questions independantly being reaearched by the three authors, they found it other fourtuitously and pooled together their work, their research, their thoughts and finding, and began to unravel much leading to questions and more questions - arriving at a startling one. Was the grail in fact the bloodline, is the question.

A fascinating intellectual journey, reading this book, with much history along the way unveiled.

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Tinky
  • Rated 2 stars

Luscious conspiracy-theory-pseudo-historical trash, and if you think Dan Brown didn't rip off every detail of this book for "The Da Vinci Code" you've got another thing coming. Also an inspiration for Umberto Eco's wonderful "Foucault's Pendulum."

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  • Rated 3.9 stars
 

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  • hosh

    hosh said:

    Well, I have read the Da Vinci Code. I think this might be one book something related to the same or somethng has the same in relation to it. But can someone tell me where do i buy this book in New Delhi, India. plz..plz.. I want to buy it. thanx and best regards.

    posted Thursday, June 19 2008
  • rebeccaCazem

    rebeccacazem said:

    I've seen bits and pieces of history channel shows discussing Da Vinci Code and this book so I decided to read it. I finished Da Vinci Code, And whether Fact or Fiction the idea that the supposed prostitute really mothered our savior's child (as we never will be able to prove this either way) the idea is interesting in just how much history we have relating to biblical events and people. Can anyone recommend any other books I should have a peak at discussing this or related topics?

    posted Thursday, June 19 2008 ( | view 4 replies )
  • X D

    x d said:

    I highly recommend this book. It is not the "Da Vinci Code," by any stretch of the imagination. Nevertheless, Dan Brown did borrow some of the ideas from it quite liberally. The whole awareness of such a thing as The Priory of Sion really stems from the research and speculation of Bagient, Lincoln and Leigh.

    While it is true that Pierre Plantard du St. Claire admitted to being a hoaxter, "The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail" deals with far more meatier subjects than either him, or his ficticious Priory of Sion. Meticulously documented, and thoroughly researched, it offers a fascinating look into medieval and renaissance politics, and the underlying belief that Christ and Mary Magdalene parented the Merovingian dynasty of France.

    Plantard's fraud is in inserting himself into a very old story. Thus, one should keep this in mind when reading "HBHG." To simply write off the work as fiction because Plantard tried to cash in on the old legend this book chronicles is to miss the point.

    posted Monday, June 9 2008
  • Joann

    joann said:

    OHHHH Is this book boring but I refuse to let it go.. I am 1/2 way done and I will make it :)

    posted Monday, May 19 2008 ( | view 1 reply )
  • CharmaineZoe

    charmainezoe said:

    Very entertaining book, but unfortunately based on what is now known to have been a massive hoax perpetrated in the 1950's( as indeed is the Da Vinci Code)known as the Priory of Sion. Although this will disappoint a lot of readers who accepted it as fact the story of the hoax is almost as fascinating as the fiction. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priory_of_Sion

    posted Thursday, February 21 2008
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