Title: Prester John : the legend and its sources /
Authors: Brewer, Keagan,
Year: 2015
Subjects: Prester John Sources.; Prester John (Legendary character) Sources.; Literature, Medieval History and criticism; Literature, Medieval.; Prester John (Legendary character)
Abstract: "The aim of this book is to collate and present the major sources for the study of the legend of Prester John. For the medieval texts, these are supplied in both the original language (usually Latin) and English translation. Because they are less material to the usual discussions of Prester John, the modern texts are presented only in English."--Foreword, p. [vii].
Contents: Believing in Prester John -- The beginnings of Prester John (twelfth century) -- Prester John and the fifth crusade (early thirteenth century) -- Mongols and travel writiers (mid-thirteenth to fourteenth centuries) -- Prester John in Africa (fifteenth to early seventeenth centuries) -- Legends and lies (late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries) -- Unravelling Prester John (seventeenth and eighteenth centuries).