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Dynasty Of The Holy Grail: Mormonism's Sacred Bloodline, Jesse D. Hurlbut, Vern G. Swanson
Dynasty Of The Holy Grail: Mormonism's Sacred Bloodline, Jesse D. Hurlbut, Vern G. Swanson
BYU Studies Quarterly
What do the Virgin Mary, King Arthur, and Joseph Smith have in common? This is one of the questions that Vern Swanson attempts to answer in Dynasty of the Holy Grail: Mormonism's Sacred Bloodline. Swanson, who has been director of the Springville Art Museum in Utah since 1980 and who has published extensively in art historical topics, applies his skills to a different body of material in this impressive, large-format volume of over five hundred pages.
The author refers to his own work as a "scattershot miscellany of random thoughts" (411). While some may find in this statement a self-effacing …