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Prester John: The Legend and its Sources (Crusade Texts in Translation) by Malcolm Professor Barber; Peter W Professor Edbury; Bernard Professor Hamilton; Norman Professor Housley; Peter Professor Jackson; Keagan Joel Mr Brewer is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Prester John: The Legend and its Sources (Crusade Texts in Translation) about?
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). 0The 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 introduction
Who reads Prester John: The Legend and its Sources (Crusade Texts in Translation)?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Malcolm Professor Barber; Peter W Professor Edbury; Bernard Professor Hamilton; Norman Professor Housley; Peter Professor Jackson; Keagan Joel Mr Brewer
- Publisher
- Ashgate Publishing Limited
- Published
- 2015
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781315602097
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Literary Criticism, Folklore
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