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Reading Prester John : Cultural Fantasy and its Manuscript Contexts / John Eldevik.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Beyond Medieval EuropePublisher: Leeds : ARC Humanities Press, [2024]Copyright date: 2024Description: 1 online resource (170 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781802701975
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- Chapter 1 WONDERS OF THE EAST VISIONS OF GLOBAL CHRISTENDOM IN THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES -- Chapter 2 THE LETTER OF PRESTER JOHN AND ITS RECEPTION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY -- Chapter 3 READING AND REIMAGINING PRESTER JOHN IN THE TWELFTH AND THIRTEENTH CENTURIES -- Chapter 4 PRESTER JOHN, THE MONGOLS, AND THE RESILIENCE OF WONDER -- Chapter 5 THE NEW HORIZONS OF CHRISTENDOM PRESTER JOHN IN AFRICA -- CONCLUSION -- Appendix THE LETTER OF PRESTER JOHN (B REDACTION) -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX
Summary: During the Middle Ages, many Europeans imagined that there existed a powerful and marvel-filled Christian realm beyond the lands of Islam ruled by a devout emperor they called “Priest John,” or “Prester John.” Spurred by a forged letter that mysteriously appeared around 1165 and quickly “went viral” in hundreds of manuscripts across Western Europe, the legend of Prester John and his exotic kingdom was not just a utopian fantasy, but a way to bring contemporary political and theological questions into sharper focus. In this new study, John Eldevik shows how the manuscripts that transmitted the story of Prester John reflect the ways contemporary audiences processed ideas about religious conflict and helped them imagine a new, global dimension of Christianity. It includes an appendix with a new translation of the B recension of The Letter of Prester John.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- Chapter 1 WONDERS OF THE EAST VISIONS OF GLOBAL CHRISTENDOM IN THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES -- Chapter 2 THE LETTER OF PRESTER JOHN AND ITS RECEPTION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY -- Chapter 3 READING AND REIMAGINING PRESTER JOHN IN THE TWELFTH AND THIRTEENTH CENTURIES -- Chapter 4 PRESTER JOHN, THE MONGOLS, AND THE RESILIENCE OF WONDER -- Chapter 5 THE NEW HORIZONS OF CHRISTENDOM PRESTER JOHN IN AFRICA -- CONCLUSION -- Appendix THE LETTER OF PRESTER JOHN (B REDACTION) -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX

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During the Middle Ages, many Europeans imagined that there existed a powerful and marvel-filled Christian realm beyond the lands of Islam ruled by a devout emperor they called “Priest John,” or “Prester John.” Spurred by a forged letter that mysteriously appeared around 1165 and quickly “went viral” in hundreds of manuscripts across Western Europe, the legend of Prester John and his exotic kingdom was not just a utopian fantasy, but a way to bring contemporary political and theological questions into sharper focus. In this new study, John Eldevik shows how the manuscripts that transmitted the story of Prester John reflect the ways contemporary audiences processed ideas about religious conflict and helped them imagine a new, global dimension of Christianity. It includes an appendix with a new translation of the B recension of The Letter of Prester John.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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