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Jackson, Peter. "Prester John redivivus: a review article." Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 7, no. 3 (1997): 425–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1356186300009457.

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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.

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Kaplan, Steven, Edward Ullendorff, C. F. Beckingham, and Prester John. "The Hebrew Letters of Prester John." Numen 32, no. 2 (1985): 282. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3269816.

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Ullendorff, Edward. "Some Marginalia on Two Articles in JRAS 1, 3, 1991." Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 2, no. 3 (1992): 423–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1356186300003035.

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I have read Dr Nigel Allan's article in the above issue of the most attractively revamped JRAS with great interest, partly because the Constantinople 1505 printing of Rashi's commentary to Exodus 28:6 (reproduced on p. 351) reminds me strongly of the Constantinople 1519 printing of the Hebrew letter from Prester John to “the Pope at Rome”, and partly on account of some pregnant differences in Rashi's text as between the Wellcome version and that in the Miqra'ot Gәdolot of the well-known Warsaw 1874 edition.

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Kaplan, Steven. "A Note on the Hebrew Letters of Prester John." Journal of Jewish Studies 36, no. 2 (1985): 230–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.18647/1215/jjs-1985.

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Ullendorff, Edward, and C. F. Beckingham. "A Further Note on the Hebrew Letters of Prester John." Journal of Jewish Studies 37, no. 1 (1986): 92–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.18647/1252/jjs-1986.

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Aigle, Denise. "The Letters of Eljigidei, Hülegü, and Abaqa: Mongol Overtures or Christian Ventriloquism?" Inner Asia 7, no. 2 (2005): 143–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/146481705793646883.

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AbstractThis paper deals with the Great Khans and Ilkhans’ letters, and with the question of their authenticity. Generally, these letters were written in Mongolian, but very few of the original documents have come down to us. The author analyses three letters sent by the Mongols to the Latin West. This paper points out the leading role of the Eastern Christians in the translation of the letters, and their hope for an alliance between the Ilkhans and the Latin West. In these letters the Mongols emphasised the protection afforded to the Christians, the legend of Prester John and the possibility of returning Jerusalem to the Franks. But the offer of collaboration went unheeded.

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Osipian, Alexandr. "Armenian Involvement in the Latin-Mongol Crusade: Uses of the Magi and Prester John in Constable Smbat’s Letter and Hayton of Corycus’s “Flos historiarum terre orientis,” 1248-1307." Medieval Encounters 20, no. 1 (2014): 66–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15700674-12342157.

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Abstract This paper examines the issue of how Armenians and Nestorians in the Mongol service used the Western legends about the Orient to influence the crusading plans of the Latin Christians between 1248 and 1307. In particular, it considers the role of the ruling elite of Cilician Armenia as mediators between Mongols and Franks in Outremer, first discussing the Letter of Cilician Constable Smbat (1248), and then examining the treatise “Flos historiarum terre orientis” by Hayton of Corycus (Het’um/Haitonus, 1307) with the crusading proposal contained in it. This article examines the narrative techniques used by Smbat and Het’um to produce a positive image of the Mongols/Tatars for Western readers in a wider cultural context of contemporary European perception of the Orient. In particular, it researches how Smbat incorporated the stories about the Magi and Prester John into the description of the Mongol Empire and the spread of Christianity within it. Special attention is given to a comparison of Armenian sources written for internal (Armenian) and external (Frankish) readers. This article also develops a hypothesis that Armenian diplomacy used Louis IX of France’s letter and his envoy William of Rubruck to enforce the position of the Cilician king Het’um I at the Mongol court in 1254.

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Kaplan, Steven. "ULLENDORFF, Edward, and C. F. BECKINGHAM, The Hebrew Letters of Prester John-Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1982, XIII, 252pp. £12.00." Numen 32, no. 2 (1985): 282–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156852785x00094.

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Panić, Marija. "The description and symbolic value of the unicorn in French literature of the 12th and 13th centuries." Issues in Ethnology and Anthropology 10, no. 2 (2016): 461. http://dx.doi.org/10.21301/eap.v10i2.9.

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The paper considers naturalist and symbolic traits attributed to the unicorn in French 12th and 13th century literature. The corpus encompasses the bestiaries comprised by Philippe de Thaon, Gervaise, Guillaume de Normandy, Pierre de Beauvais, Richard de Fournival and pseudo-Pierre de Beauveis, which belong to the tradition of the Physiologoi, as well as other encyclopedic and other works which contain the bookish zoological and geographic knowledge of the middle ages: Mappemonde by Pierre de Beauvais, The letter of presbyter John, and the Mappemonde by Gossouin de Metz. In this corpus where the description of the animals comes mainly from the same written sources (from antiquity and late antiquity and the Bible), we consider how this nonexistent animal is described and to what extent a symbolic interpretation is present.

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Wyld, Johnny. "Prester John in Central Asia." Asian Affairs 31, no. 1 (2000): 3–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/714041399.

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Bar-Ilan, Meir. "Prester John: Fiction and history." History of European Ideas 20, no. 1-3 (1995): 291–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0191-6599(95)92954-s.

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Dubrovskaya, Dinara V. "PRESTER JOHN: DECONSTRUCTING THE LEGEND." Journal of the Institute of Oriental Studies RAS, no. 1(15) (2021): 104–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.31696/2618-7302-2021-1-104-116.

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Phillips, Helen. "Prester John: The Legend and its Sources." Folklore 129, no. 1 (2018): 108–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0015587x.2017.1407170.

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Knobler, Adam. "The Power of Distance: The Transformation of European Perceptions of Self and Other, 1100-1600." Medieval Encounters 19, no. 4 (2013): 434–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15700674-12342146.

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Abstract Anthropologists such as Mary Helms have noted a historical linkage between the phenomena of perceived distance and perceived power. In this article I apply this paradigm to the history of European imperial expansion between the twelfth and the sixteenth century. In the Middle Ages, European popes and kings imbued the mythic ruler Prester John with great power in part because he was unseen and believed to live at a great distance. By associating the Mongols, and the Ethiopians after them, with Prester John, both of these peoples became an embodiment of this distance/power paradigm in Western European eyes. Latins hoped that the Mongols or Ethiopians would use their “power” to assist the West in their crusading battles in the Holy Land. When the Portuguese and Spanish began their voyages of expansion, they applied the same paradigm to the peoples they encountered in Asia, Africa and the Americas. When distance between Europe and these other continents was breached, however, the Iberian view of the others’ power diminished. Simultaneously, the Spanish and Portuguese perception of their own power increased as they, not “Prester John”, became the conquerors of distance.

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Lakowski, Romuald Ian. "Thomas More and the East: Ethiopia, India and The Land of Prester John." Moreana 46 (Number 177-, no. 2-3 (2009): 181–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/more.2009.46.2-3.10.

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More makes many references to the “Orient” in his writings. A consistent view of More’s “Orientalism”, which reveals a strong interest in the existence of Eastern Christians, can be obtained from examining the evidence of scattered references to “the East” in More’s Collected Works (mostly written after Utopia), particularly to “Ethiopia”, the “Men of Inde” and the “Land of Prester John”. These references indicate that even almost twenty years after Utopia was published, More was still referring to the Orient in essentially medieval terms: that far from being an exception, More’s geographical world view was essentially similar to that of his more educated contemporaries, and that the discovery of the America had only a very “blunted impact” on More’s geographical understanding. Further evidence of the More Circle’s interest in Eastern Christians is provided by John More’s 1533 Preface to his translation of Damião de Góis’s Legacy of Prester John.

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Schmieder, Felicitas. "Prester John: The Legend and its Sources, by Keagan Brewer." English Historical Review 132, no. 558 (2017): 1291–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cex254.

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Giardini, Marco. "The Quest for the Ethiopian Prester John and its Eschatological Implications." Medievalia 22 (November 27, 2019): 55. http://dx.doi.org/10.5565/rev/medievalia.480.

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Barnes. "Rémundar saga keisarasonar: Romance, Epic, and the Legend of Prester John." Journal of English and Germanic Philology 111, no. 2 (2012): 208. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/jenglgermphil.111.2.0208.

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Lawrance, Jeremy. "The Middle Indies: Damiao de Góis on Prester John and the Ethiopians." Renaissance Studies 6, no. 3-4 (1992): 306–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1477-4658.1992.tb00343.x.

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Taylor, Christopher. "Global Circulation as Christian Enclosure: Legend, Empire, and the Nomadic Prester John." Literature Compass 11, no. 7 (2014): 445–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/lic3.12153.

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Lawrance, Jeremy. "The Middle Indies: Damiao De Gois on Prester John and the Ethiopians." Renaissance Studies 6, no. 3-4 (1992): 306–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1477-4658.00120.

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Zubacz, Marta, and Maurizio Bonino. "La leggenda del regno del Prete Gianni." Forum Filologiczne Ateneum, no. 1(6)2018 (December 31, 2018): 205–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.36575/2353-2912/1(6)2018.205.

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The reign of Prester John (Prete Gianni), one of the most interesting legends of the Middle Ages, can ignite the imagination even today. It is not surprising that the eyes and hearts of the monarchs and popes were facing east, where they sought their legendary kingdom characterized by unimaginable power, wealth, miracles and at the same time a pure Christian life.

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Smith, Craig. "Every Man Must Kill the Thing He Loves: Empire, Homoerotics, and Nationalism in John Buchan's "Prester John"." NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction 28, no. 2 (1995): 173. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1345510.

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Hamilton, Alastair. "Prester John. The Legend and its Sources, written by Keagan Brewer (editor and translator)." Church History and Religious Culture 96, no. 3 (2016): 379–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18712428-09603008.

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Mukherjee, Rila. "People, Places, and Mobility: The Strange History of Prester John across the Indian Ocean." Asian Review of World Histories 6, no. 2 (2018): 258–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22879811-12340037.

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Abstract The worlds of Central Asia and the Indian Ocean have been seen as discrete, seemingly unconnected except by way of the vertical silk roads descending through feeder routes into port cities situated along the Indian Ocean and its many seas, gulfs, and bays. Before Central Asia lost historical centrality and was regarded increasingly as a blank space on the map, it was a dynamic region. The Indian Ocean world with its spice, cotton, and silk routes was more known, having entered European geographical knowledge— and fantasy—from antiquity. The two worlds—terrestrial and oceanic—have been seen as diametrically opposed, with historiography privileging the latter. This essay links the two worlds by evoking people, places, and mobility through the legend of Prester John, a mysterious Christian monarch and putative ally against Muslims.

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Perry, Micha. "The Imaginary War between Prester John and Eldad the Danite and Its Real Implications." Viator 41, no. 1 (2010): 1–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1484/j.viator.1.100565.

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Heng, G. "Sex, Lies, and Paradise: The Assassins, Prester John, and the Fabulation of Civilizational Identities." differences 23, no. 1 (2012): 1–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/10407391-1533511.

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Hersee, John. "[Letter from John Hersee]." Mathematical Gazette 86, no. 507 (2002): 518. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3621165.

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Rothgeb, John. "[Letter from John Rothgeb]." Music Theory Spectrum 16, no. 1 (1994): 147–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/745839.

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Rothgeb, John. "[Letter from John Rothgeb]." Music Theory Spectrum 16, no. 1 (1994): 147–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/mts.1994.16.1.02a00120.

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Warrack, John. "[Letter from John Warrack]." Journal of the American Musicological Society 41, no. 2 (1988): 393–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/jams.1988.41.2.03a00110.

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Michael, Donald N. "Letter to John Rowan." Journal of Humanistic Psychology 29, no. 2 (1989): 274–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0022167889292010.

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Crossan, G. "John Clare's Last Letter." Notes and Queries 38, no. 3 (1991): 319. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/notesj/38.3.319.

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Coetzee, JM. "Letter to John Higgins." Arts and Humanities in Higher Education 15, no. 1 (2016): 7–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1474022215618476.

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Warrack, John. "[Letter from John Warrack]." Journal of the American Musicological Society 41, no. 2 (1988): 393–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/831443.

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Livingstone, J. "Buchan and the Priest King: Nelson’s New Novels, “The Mountain,” and Religious Revolution in Prester John." English in Africa 40, no. 2 (2014): 47. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/eia.v40i2.3.

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Wilson, Elizabeth L. "Searches for an Imaginary Kingdom: The Legend of the Kingdom of Prester John. L. N. Gumilev." Journal of Religion 70, no. 1 (1990): 130–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/488318.

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Witcomb, Luci Ann. "Response to John Egerton's letter." Preventive Veterinary Medicine 117, no. 1 (2014): 314. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.prevetmed.2014.09.001.

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Ward, John M. "[Letter from John M. Ward]." Journal of the American Musicological Society 40, no. 1 (1987): 156. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/jams.1987.40.1.03a00180.

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Yoell, John H. "[Letter from John H. Yoell]." Journal of the American Musicological Society 40, no. 3 (1987): 580. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/jams.1987.40.3.03a00160.

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Dressler, John C. "[Letter from John C. Dressler]." Journal of the American Musicological Society 44, no. 3 (1991): 525. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/jams.1991.44.3.03a00110.

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Hill, John Walter. "[Letter from John Walter Hill]." Journal of the American Musicological Society 50, no. 2-3 (1997): 537. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/jams.1997.50.2-3.03a00160.

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Steinbeck, John. "A Letter from John Steinbeck." Steinbeck Studies 15, no. 1 (2004): 88–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/stn.2004.0025.

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Smith. "A Letter from John D." Transition, no. 117 (2015): 171. http://dx.doi.org/10.2979/transition.117.171.

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Ward, John M. "[Letter from John M. Ward]." Journal of the American Musicological Society 40, no. 1 (1987): 156. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/831597.

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Dressler, John C. "[Letter from John C. Dressler]." Journal of the American Musicological Society 44, no. 3 (1991): 525. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/831653.

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Yoell, John H. "[Letter from John H. Yoell]." Journal of the American Musicological Society 40, no. 3 (1987): 580. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/831689.

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Hill, John Walter. "[Letter from John Walter Hill]." Journal of the American Musicological Society 50, no. 2-3 (1997): 537. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/831850.

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Baeta, Joaquim. "False Hope and Empty Promises from a Priest-King in the East: How Environment and Communication Shape Belief." Proceeding International Conference on Science and Engineering 2 (March 1, 2019): xvi. http://dx.doi.org/10.14421/icse.v2.119.

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As the 12th century entered its midpoint, unease permeated through Christendom. In 1144, the County of Edessa had fallen to Zengi, the atabeg of Mosul and Aleppo, signalling that all was not well in the Holy Land. News of the fall of Edessa quickly travelled westward, with the Catholic Pope, Eugenius III, issuing a papal bull calling for a Second Crusade in December of the next yea r. Nevertheless, for the Edessa’s fellow Crusader states, the restlessness of being surrounded by the Islamic had turned to alarm. Help was gravely needed. Then came word of aid from an unlikely place: the East itself. Rumours had swirled of a Christian monarch in the East, but actual proof of his existence was scant, based mainly on fantastical tales of the Orient. That changed in December of 1145, with a conversation between Bishops Otto of Freising and Hugh of Jabala. Hugh told Otto of a Nestorian Christian priest-king “beyond Persia and Armenia”, who had “warred upon the so-called Samiards, the brother kings of the Medes and Persians.” More critically, Hugh reported that this priest-king had “moved his army to aid the church of Jerusalem” but was unable to cross the Tigris and returned home. Such was the legend of Prester John, the ruler of an eastern Christian kingdom that offered hope and little else to a Christian West that would steadily lose its grip on the Holy Land. Why did Prester John never come to the aid of the Crusader states? The story o f this priest- king, his supposed interactions with western Christendom and ultimate failure to deliver on his promises, reveals how the environmen t we inhabit and the methods we use to communicate shape our beliefs and values, and that as our environments and communication methods change, so do these beliefs and values.

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Giardini, Marco. "“Ego, Presbiter Iohannes, Dominus Sum Dominantium”: The Name of Prester John and the Origin of his Legend." Viator 48, no. 2 (2017): 195–230. http://dx.doi.org/10.1484/j.viator.5.115982.

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