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Prester John: The Legend and its Sources (Crusade Texts in Translation) Prester John: The Legend and its Sources (Crusade Texts in Translation)
Type
Physical Book
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Publisher
Author
Year
2019
Language
English
Pages
352
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
23.1 x 15.5 x 2.3 cm
Weight
0.57 kg.
ISBN13
9780367879044
Edition No.
1
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Prester John: The Legend and its Sources (Crusade Texts in Translation)

Keagan Brewer (Illustrated by) · Routledge · Paperback

Prester John: The Legend and its Sources (Crusade Texts in Translation) - Brewer, Keagan

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Synopsis "Prester John: The Legend and its Sources (Crusade Texts in Translation) "

The legend of Prester John has received much scholarly attention over the last hundred years, but never before have the sources been collected and coherently presented to readers. This book now brings together a fully-representative set of texts setting out the many and various sources from which we get our knowledge of the legend. These texts, spanning a time period from the Crusades to the Enlightenment, are presented in their original languages and in English translation (for many it is the first time they have been available in English). The story of the mysterious oriental leader Prester John, ruler of a land teeming with marvels who may come to the aid of Christians in the Levant, held an intense grip on the medieval mind from the first references in twelfth-century Crusader literature and into the early-modern period. But Prester John was a man of shifting identity, being at different times and for different reasons associated with Chingis Khan and the Mongols, with the Christian kingdom of Ethiopia, with China, Tibet, South Africa and West Africa. In order to orient the reader, each of these iterations is explained in the comprehensive introduction, and in the introductions to texts and sections. The introduction also raises a thorny question not often considered: whether or not medieval audiences believed in the reality of Prester John and the Prester John Letter. The book is completed with three valuable appendices: a list of all known references to Prester John in medieval and early modern sources, a thorough description of the manuscript traditions of the all-important Prester John Letter, and a brief description of Prester John in the history of cartography.

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