Prester John Legend Between East And West During The Crusades Entangled Eastern Latin Mythical
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The Prester John Legend Between East And West During The Crusades
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Author : Ahmed M. A. Sheir
language : en
Publisher: Trivent Publishing
Release Date : 2022-06-22
The Prester John Legend Between East And West During The Crusades written by Ahmed M. A. Sheir and has been published by Trivent Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-06-22 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book considers the history of the Prester John legend and its impact on the Crusades, investigating its entangled mythical history between East and West during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. The present study thus responds to the still pressing need for a comprehensive historical investigation of the twelfth and thirteenth crusading history of the legend and its impact on the Muslim-Crusader encounters, examining various Latin, Arabic, Syriac, and Coptic accounts. It further reflects on new eastern aspects of the legend, presenting a new Arab scholarly view. This book first charts a pre-history of the legend in the late ancient Christian prophecy of the Last Emperor down to the emergence of the legend in the mid-twelfth century. Second, the work presents a historical discussion of the legend and its association with actual occurrences in the Far East and the Levant, analysing the legend history under the crusading crisis and the imperial papal schism in Europe. Meanwhile, the work considers the vague Prester John Letter addressed to Manuel I Komnenus, Byzantine Emperor, and its elaborate conception of a mythical eastern kingdom, revealing imaginative parallels on the wondrous East and legendary Eastern Christian kings in Arabic Muslim and Christian accounts of the Muslim geographer and cartographer al-Idrisi, the Coptic Abu al-Makarim and the Syriac Ibn al-'Ibri (Bar Hebraeus), among others. Moreover, the book examines how the legend impacted war and peace processes between the Ayyubids and the Crusaders during the Fifth Crusade against Egypt (1217-1221), revealing how it was mingled with Arabic and Eastern Christian prophecies at the time. The study concludes by investigating the perception of Prester John by the papal and European envoys to the Mongols in the thirteenth century, revealing how the legend was instrumentalised (and even weaponised) to establish a Latin-Mongol crusade through a parallel exploration of relevant Latin, Arabic and Syriac sources.
The Prester John Legend Between East And West During The Crusades
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Author : Ahmed Mohamed Abdelkawy Sheir
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022
The Prester John Legend Between East And West During The Crusades written by Ahmed Mohamed Abdelkawy Sheir and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022 with categories.
Prester John Legend Between East And West During The Crusades Entangled Eastern Latin Mythical
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Author : AHMED M. A. SHEIR.
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022
Prester John Legend Between East And West During The Crusades Entangled Eastern Latin Mythical written by AHMED M. A. SHEIR. and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022 with categories.
Der Niederrheinische Orientbericht C 1350
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Author : Albrecht Classen
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Release Date : 2024-05-14
Der Niederrheinische Orientbericht C 1350 written by Albrecht Classen and has been published by Boydell & Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-05-14 with History categories.
First English translation and detailed commentary of a fourteenth-century Low-German work about the Near and Middle East. That extensive travel took place during the Middle Ages has long been established, via such accounts as, for example, Marco Polo's Devisement du Monde; but there remains a relative paucity of documents or narratives confirming and dealing with this phenomenon. Der Niederrheinische Orientbericht ("An Account of the Middle East"), composed around 1350/55 by an anonymous author in Low German, is powerful evidence of international relations between east and west during this period; it provides extensive information, dealing with such matters as the local culture, fauna and flora, and offers spectacular insights into the co-existence of many different religions and peoples. It is therefore an important source for our knowledge; but it has hitherto been neglected by scholars, not least because of the difficulty of its language. This volume offers the first translation into English, thereby making the work available to a wider audience; it is accompanied by a detailed commentary on its historical, religious, military, architectural and political elements, elucidating the narrative fully. The volume also contains a contextual introduction, considering what can be known of the author, and the manuscript tradition.
Prester John The Legend And Its Sources
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Author : Keagan Brewer
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-08-08
Prester John The Legend And Its Sources written by Keagan Brewer and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-08 with History categories.
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 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 from the first references in twelfth-century Crusader literature and into the early-modern period. But Prester John was a man of shifting identity, being at different times and for different reasons associated with Chingis Khan and the Mongols, with the Christian kingdom of Ethiopia, with China, Tibet, South Africa and West Africa. In order to orient the reader, each of these iterations is explained in the comprehensive introduction, and in the introductions to texts and sections. The introduction also raises a thorny question not often considered: whether or not medieval audiences believed in the reality of Prester John and the Prester John Letter. The book is completed with three valuable appendices: a list of all known references to Prester John in medieval and early modern sources, a thorough description of the manuscript traditions of the all-important Prester John Letter, and a brief description of Prester John in the history of cartography.
Prester John The Legend And Its Sources
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language : en
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Release Date : 2015-07-28
Prester John The Legend And Its Sources written by and has been published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-28 with History categories.
The story of the mysterious oriental leader Prester John, who ruled a land teeming with marvels and might 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.
East And West In The Crusader States
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Author : Krijna Nelly Ciggaar
language : en
Publisher: Peeters Publishers
Release Date : 1996
East And West In The Crusader States written by Krijna Nelly Ciggaar and has been published by Peeters Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with History categories.
This work, the Acta of the colloquium of the same name held in Hernen (Netherlands), is a collection of essays dealing with the relations between East and West in the context of the Crusader States. In this connection "East" refers in particular to the non-Byzantine Oriental Christians, Muslims and Jews who set the tone for daily life in "Outremer" to a great extent. Attention is focused upon the relations between the various communities, the social position of the minorities, and religious and cultural, especially literary, contacts and influences.
Prester John The Legend And Its Sources
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015
Prester John The Legend And Its Sources written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Literature, Medieval categories.
Mercator S World
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
Mercator S World written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Atlases categories.
Habitation Of The Blessed
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Author : Catherynne M. Valente
language : en
Publisher: Night Shade
Release Date : 2010-10-26
Habitation Of The Blessed written by Catherynne M. Valente and has been published by Night Shade this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-10-26 with Books and reading categories.
Brother Hiob, on missionary work in the Himalayan wilderness, discovers a village guarding a miraculous tree whose branches sprout books instead of fruit. These books chronicle the history of the kingdom of Prestor John, and Hiob becomes obsessed with the tales they tell.