Prester John redivivus

A review article

Bibliographic Data

ID15076841
AuthorsPeter Jackson (0000-0002-6002-8166, corresponding author)
Year1997
Volume7
Issue3
Pages425-432
Publication date1997-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of the Royal Asiatic Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1356-1863 • E-ISSN: 1474-0591
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s1356186300009457
OpenAlexW1996676180
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited10

The development of the Prester John legend and matters associated with it are complex, and no significant work of book length in English has appeared on the subject since V. Slessarev's Prester John. The Letter and the Legend (1959). The recent publication of a collection of texts and interpretive essays will therefore be warmly welcomed. The texts are among those published by Zarncke in the Abhandlungen der königlichen sāchsischen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften , vii (1879), and include the famous “letter” of Prester John, together with a note by Hamilton on additional Latin manuscripts that have since come to light. The essays comprise both reprints of work that has appeared over the past five decades and six fresh studies that now see the light of day for the first time

Art · Art history · Legend · Library science · Literature · Classics · Computer Science · Historical and Linguistic Studies · Historical, Literary, and Cultural Studies · History · Linguistics and language evolution

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