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1 online resource |
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Crusade texts in translation ; 27 |
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Crusade texts in translation ; 27.
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| Contents |
Cover; Contents; Foreword; Introduction Believing in Prester John; Section 1 -- The Beginnings of Prester John (Twelfth Century); Section 2 -- Prester John and the Fifth Crusade (Early Thirteenth Century); Section 3 -- Mongols and Travel Writers (Mid-Thirteenth to Fourteenth Centuries); Section 4 -- Prester John in Africa (Fifteenth to Early Seventeenth Centuries); Section 5 -- Legends and Lies(Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries); Section 6 -- Unravelling Prester John (Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries); Appendix 1 -- Annotated Listof Primary Sources |
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Appendix 2 -- The Manuscript Traditions ofthe Prester John LetterAppendix 3 -- Prester John in Maps; Abbreviations; Select Bibliography of Secondary Sources; Index |
| Summary |
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 Preste |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Prester John (Legendary character) -- Sources
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Prester John (Legendary character) |
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Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Folklore & Mythology.
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Literature, Medieval
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Sources
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Brewer, Keagan, translator
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| ISBN |
9781409438083 |
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1409438082 |
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