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The Prester John Legend Between East and West During the Crusades - Entangled Eastern-Latin Mythical Legacies (Hardcover)
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The Prester John Legend Between East and West During the Crusades - Entangled Eastern-Latin Mythical Legacies (Hardcover)
Series: Mediterranean Studies in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages
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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-Idr?s?, the Coptic ?b?
al-Mak?rim and the Syriac Ibn al-?Ibr? (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.
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