Prester John

The Legend and its Sources
Herausgeber: Brewer, Keagan

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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. It has received much scholarly attention, but never before have the sources been collected and coherently presented to readers. This book now brings together a fully-representative set of sources from which we get our knowledge of the legend. These texts, spanning from the Crusades to the Enlightenment, are presented in their original languages and in English translation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 667g
• ISBN-13: 9781409438076
• ISBN-10: 1409438074
• Artikelnr.: 44827910

Autorenporträt

Keagan Brewer is affiliated with the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Sydney, Australia.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Foreword
Introduction: Believing in Prester John
The beginnings of Prester John (12th century)
Prester John and the Fifth Crusade (early 13th century)
Mongols and travel writers (mid-13th to 14th centuries)
Prester John in Africa (15th to early 17th centuries)
Legends and lies (late 16th and early 17th centuries)
Unravelling Prester John (17th and 18th centuries)
Appendices
Select bibliography of secondary sources
Index.