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''The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail'' (retitled ''Holy Blood, Holy Grail'' in the United States) is a book by Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, and Henry Lincoln. The book was first published in 1982 by Jonathan Cape in London, as an unofficial follow-up to three BBC Two TV documentaries that were part of the ''Chronicle'' series. The paperback version was first published in 1983 by Corgi books.〔ISBN 0-552-12138-X.〕 A sequel to the book, called '' The Messianic Legacy'', was originally published in 1986. The original work was reissued in an illustrated hardcover version with exclusive new material in 2005.〔Published by Century, part of The Random House Group Limited. ISBN 1-84413-840-2〕 One of the books that the authors claim influenced the project was ''L’Or de Rennes'' (later re-published as ''Le Trésor Maudit''), a 1967 book by Gérard de Sède, with the collaboration of Pierre Plantard.〔Pierre Plantard de Saint-Clair, ''L’Or de Rennes, mise au point'' (La Garenne-Colombes, 35 bis, Bd de la République, 92250; Bibliothèque Nationale, Depot Legal 02-03-1979, 4° Z Piece 1182).〕〔Jean-Luc Chaumeil, ''Rennes-le-Château – Gisors – Le Testament du Prieuré de Sion (Le Crépuscule d’une Ténébreuse Affaire)'' Editions Pégase, 2006〕 In ''The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail'', the authors put forward a hypothesis, that the historical Jesus married Mary Magdalene, had one or more children, and that those children or their descendants emigrated to what is now southern France. Once there, they intermarried with the noble families that would eventually become the Merovingian dynasty, whose special claim to the throne of France is championed today by a secret society called the Priory of Sion. They concluded that the legendary Holy Grail is simultaneously the womb of saint Mary Magdalene and the sacred royal bloodline she gave birth to.〔(''The Secret of the Priory of Sion'', '60 Minutes', 30 April 2006, presented by Ed Bradley, produced by Jeanne Langley, CBS News )〕 An international bestseller upon its release, ''The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail'' spurred interest in a number of ideas related to its central thesis. Response from professional historians and scholars from related fields was universally negative. They argued that the bulk of the claims, ancient mysteries, and conspiracy theories presented as facts are pseudohistorical.〔Martin Kemp, Professor of Art History at Oxford University, on the documentary ''The History of a Mystery'', BBC Two, transmitted on 17 September 1996, commenting on books like ''The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail'': "There are certain historical problems, of which the Turin Shroud is one, in which there is 'fantastic fascination' with the topic, but a historical vacuum - a lack of solid evidence - and where there's a vacuum - nature abhores a vacuum - and historical speculation abhors a vacuum - and it all floods in...But what you end up with is almost nothing tangible or solid. You start from a hypothesis, and then that is deemed to be demonstrated more-or-less by stating the speculation, you then put another speculation on top of that, and you end up with this great tower of hypotheses and speculations - and if you say 'where are the rocks underneath this?' they are not there. It's like the House on Sand, it washes away as soon as you ask really hard questions of it."〕〔Damian Thompson, ''Counterknowledge. How We Surrendered to Conspiracy Theories, Quack Medicine, Bogus Science and Fake History''. Atlantic Books, 2008. ISBN 1-84354-675-2.〕〔Franck Marie, ''Rennes-le-Château: Etude Critique'' (SRES, 1978).〕〔Pierre Jarnac, ''Histoire du Trésor de Rennes-le-Château'' (1985).〕〔Pierre Jarnac, ''Les Archives de Rennes-le-Château'' (Editions Belisane, 1988). Describing ''The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail'' as a "monument of mediocrity".〕〔Jean-Luc Chaumeil,''La Table d'Isis ou Le Secret de la Lumière'' (Editions Guy Trédaniel, 1994).〕〔Marie-France Etchegoin & Frédéric Lenoir, ''Code Da Vinci: L'Enquête'' (Robert Laffont, 2004).〕〔Massimo Introvigne, ''Gli Illuminati E Il Priorato Di Sion - La Verita Sulle Due Societa Segrete Del Codice Da Vinci Di Angeli E Demoni'' (Piemme; 2005).〕〔Jean-Jacques Bedu, ''Les sources secrètes du Da Vinci Code'' (Editions du Rocher, 2005).〕〔Bernardo Sanchez Da Motta, ''Do Enigma de Rennes-le-Château ao Priorado de Siao - Historia de um Mito Moderno'' (Esquilo, 2005).〕〔Neville Morley, ''Writing Ancient History'', page 19 (Cornell University Press, 1999). ISBN 0-8014-8633-5〕 Nevertheless, these ideas were considered blasphemous enough for the book to be banned in some Roman Catholic-dominated countries such as the Philippines.〔(Banned Books Awareness: “Holy Blood, Holy Grail” )〕〔(Holy Blood, Holy Grail )〕 In a 1982 review of the book for ''The Observer'', literary critic Anthony Burgess wrote: "It is typical of my unregenerable soul that I can only see this as a marvellous theme for a novel" (because it was historically unrealistic). Indeed, the theme was later used by Margaret Starbird in her 1993 novel ''The Woman with the Alabaster Jar'', and by Dan Brown in his 2003 novel ''The Da Vinci Code''.〔Quoting Dan Brown from NBC Today, 3 June 2003: "Robert Langdon is fictional, but all of the art, architecture, secret rituals, secret societies, all of that is historical fact" (found in, Carl E. Olson, Sandra Miesel, ''The Da Vinci Hoax: Exposing The Errors In The Da Vinci Code'', page 242 (Ignatius Press, 2004). ISBN 1-58617-034-1〕 == Background == After reading ''Le Trésor Maudit'', Henry Lincoln persuaded BBC Two's factual television series of the 1970s, ''Chronicle'', to make a series of documentaries, which became quite popular and generated thousands of responses. Lincoln then joined forces with Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh for further research. This led them to the pseudohistorical ''Dossiers Secrets'' at the Bibliothèque nationale de France which, though alleging to portray hundreds of years of medieval history, were actually all written by Pierre Plantard and Philippe de Chérisey under the pseudonym of "Philippe Toscan du Plantier". Unaware that the documents had been forged, Baigent, Leigh and Lincoln used them as a major source for their book. Comparing themselves to the reporters who uncovered the Watergate scandal, the authors maintain that only through speculative "synthesis can one discern the underlying continuity, the unified and coherent fabric, which lies at the core of any historical problem." To do so, one must realize that "it is not sufficient to confine oneself exclusively to facts." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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