The Prester John Legend Between East and West Du – Entangled Eastern–Latin Myth…
The Prester John Legend Between East and West During the CrusadesEntangled Eastern-Latin Mythical Legacies\nAuthor(s): Ahmed M.A. Sheir\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Trivent Publishing, Hungary\nImprint: Trivent Medieval\nISBN-13: 9786156405289, 978-6156405289\nSynopsis\nThis 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 .
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