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Prester John: The Legend and Its Sources

Book information

Publisher
Ashgate
Year
2015
ISBN
2014043573, 9781409438076, 9781409438083
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2419140 bytes)
Series
Crusade Texts in Translation 27
Pages
\351
Time added
2021-06-14 11:38:03

Description

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 Appendix 2 – The Manuscript Traditions ofthe Prester John Letter Appendix 3 – Prester John in Maps Abbreviations Select Bibliography of Secondary Sources Index

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