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Explicitly mentioned as the book that inspired T.S. Eliot's The Wasteland. Tom notes that 'T.S. Eliot, in his notes to The Wasteland, is open about this, says that he's inspired by a book called From Ritual to Romance by a very great medievalist called Jesse Weston.'

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Described as 'probably the single most influential poem written in English of the 20th century' and discussed in relation to the Holy Grail mythology and Jesse Weston's influence on it.

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Mentioned as the book that 'inspired George Lucas, who was the guy who came up with the idea of Indiana Jones and for the Star Wars.'

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Mentioned as Joseph Campbell's last volume of his 'four-volume history of mythology,' in which 'Eschenbach's Parsifal was kind of central to that.'

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Mentioned as exemplifying the theory of the Holy Grail as a secret bloodline of Christ: 'the one that is best exemplified by Holy Blood and Holy Grail.'

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Mentioned alongside Holy Blood and Holy Grail as promoting the theory that the Holy Grail represents the bloodline of Christ.

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Extensively discussed as the medieval romance that introduced the Holy Grail concept. Tom states 'his most influential by miles is one called Percival... which also Chrétien himself, in his introduction to it, calls Le Conte de Graal, the story of the grail.'

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Mentioned as one of Chrétien's famous romances: 'one of which Lancelot has a huge influence on the whole idea of Lancelot as the kind of the paradigmatic knight.'

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Described as 'a very radical reworking of basically the French traditions' of the Grail story, and noted as the version Wagner drew upon for his opera.

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Quoted directly when describing Galahad's beatific vision: 'This is from The Quest of the Holy Grail, which kind of describes Galahad's winning of the grail.'

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Referenced in comparison to Galahad's beatific vision: 'Because basically what Galahad has is what Dante also gets in the Divine Comedy, which is what's called the beatific vision.'