Charles F. Beckingham and Bernard Hamilton
Ashgate Variorum
Hardback
336
1996
This study makes an important contribution to the study of the Prester John legend and will be of interest to a wide range of scholars working in the field of medieval history and literature. The principal sources relating to Prester John are reprinted here for the first time in more than a century together with a number of key modern articles on this topic. In addition an international group of scholars has contributed six new studies which examine the legend in the context of Mongol history Russian literature the medieval Jewish accounts of the Ten Lost Tribes the crusading movement and the Portuguese voyages of exploration.
Ashgate Variorum
Hardback
336
1996
This study makes an important contribution to the study of the Prester John legend and will be of interest to a wide range of scholars working in the field of medieval history and literature. The principal sources relating to Prester John are reprinted here for the first time in more than a century together with a number of key modern articles on this topic. In addition an international group of scholars has contributed six new studies which examine the legend in the context of Mongol history Russian literature the medieval Jewish accounts of the Ten Lost Tribes the crusading movement and the Portuguese voyages of exploration.