Prester John: The Legend and Its Sources

ISBN-13: 9780367879044 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 352 str.

Keagan Brewer

Opis

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

Spis treści

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.

O autorze

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