Prester John

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Amanda Power at the University of Sheffield

Prester John - Wikipedia

‘Prester John and Europe’s Discovery of East Asia’ by Igor de Rachewiltz (East Asian History, 1996)

‘Sex, Lies, and Paradise: The Assassins, Prester John, and the Fabulation of Civilizational Identities’ by Geraldine Heng (Differences, 2012)

‘The search for Prester John, a projected crusade and the eroding prestige of Ethiopian kings, c.1200 – c.1540’ by Andrew Kurt (Journal of Medieval History, 2013)

‘Prester John : A reexamination and compendium of the mythical figure who helped spark European expansion’ by Michael E. Brooks (University of Toledo Digital Repository, 2009)

READING LIST:

M. S. Asimov and C. E. Bosworth (eds.), On the Mongolian and Central Steppes: Vol III and Vol IV of the Unesco History of Civilisations of Central Asia (UNESCO Publishing, 1998)

Charles F. Beckingham and Bernard Hamilton (eds), Prester John, the Mongols and the Ten Lost Tribes (Variorum, 1996)

Keagan Brewer, Prester John: The Legend and its Sources (Ashgate, 2015)

Christopher Dawson (ed.), The Mongol Mission: Narratives and Letters of the Franciscan Missionaries in Mongolia and China in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries (first published 1955; Ams Pr Inc, 1980)

Umberto Eco (trans. by William Weaver), Baudolino, (Secker and Warburg, 2002)

Nicholas Jubber, The Prester Quest (Doubleday, 2005)

Donald Lach, Asia in the Making of Europe (first published 1965; University of Chicago Press, 1993)

John Mandeville (trans. Charles Moseley), The Travels of Sir John Mandeville (Penguin Classics, 2005)

Giles Milton, The Riddle and the Knight: In Search of Sir John Mandeville (Sceptre, 1996)

Marco Polo (trans. Henry Yule), The Travels of Marco Polo (first published 1875; Dover Publications, 2003)

Igor de Rachewiltz, Papal Envoys to the Great Khans (Faber & Faber, 1971)

Manuel Joao Ramos, Essays in Christian Mythology: The Metamorphosis of Prester John (University Press of America, 2006)

Francis M. Rogers, The Quest for Eastern Christians: Travels and Rumor in the Age of Discovery (University of Minnesota Press, 1962)

Rabban Sawma (trans. E. A. Wallis), The Monks of Kublai Khan, Emperor of China (first published 1928; I.B.Tauris, 2014)

Robert Silverberg, The Realm of Prester John (first published 1972; W&N, 2001)

Vsevolod Slessarev, Prester John: The Letter and the Legend (University of Minnesota Press, 1959)

Michael Uebel, Ecstatic Transformation: On the Uses of Alterity in the Middle Ages (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005)

Henry Yule (ed.), Cathay and the Way Thither (first published 1866; Asian Educational Services, 2005)