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PRESTER JOHN - A Romanian Legend

Author : Anon E Mouse
Publisher : Abela Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book PRESTER JOHN - A Romanian Legend written by Anon E Mouse and published by Abela Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2016-05-17 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 136 In this 136th bedtime story from Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories, Baba Indaba narrates the Romanian legend of Prester John a fictitious king of a Christian Kingdom in East Central Asia who was rumoured to be sending an army to assist wrest back the Holy Land. ........…… Download and read the legend of Prester John and how the legend came to be. INCLUDES LINKS TO DOWNLOAD 8 FREE STORIES Each issue also has a "WHERE IN THE WORLD - LOOK IT UP" section, where young readers are challenged to look up a place on a map somewhere in the world. The place, town or city is relevant to the story, on map. HINT - use Google maps. Baba Indaba is a fictitious Zulu storyteller who narrates children's stories from around the world. Baba Indaba translates as "Father of Stories". It is believed that folklore and tales are believed to have originated in India and made their way overland along the Silk and Spice routes and through Central Asia before arriving in Europe. Even so, this does not cover all folklore from all four corners of the world. Indeed folklore, legends and myths from Africa, Australia, Polynesia, and some from Asia too, are altogether quite different and seem to have originated on the whole from separate reservoirs of lore, legend and culture. Baba Indaba,Childrens,Folklore,Fairy,Tales,bedtime story,legends,Prester John,Christian King,Central Asia,China

The Prester John Legend between East and West During the Crusades

Author : Ahmed M. A. Sheir
Publisher : Trivent Publishing
ISBN 13 : 6156405291
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (564 download)

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Download or read book The Prester John Legend between East and West During the Crusades written by Ahmed M. A. Sheir and published by Trivent Publishing. This book was released on 2022-06-22 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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-Idrisi, the Coptic Abu al-Makarim and the Syriac Ibn al-'Ibri (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.

Maps of Medieval Thought

Author : Naomi Reed Kline
Publisher : Boydell Press
ISBN 13 : 0851159370
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book Maps of Medieval Thought written by Naomi Reed Kline and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mappa mundi texts and images present a panorama of the medieval world-view, c.1300; the Hereford map studied in close detail. Filled with information and lore, mappae mundi present an encyclopaedic panorama of the conceptual "landscape" of the middle ages. Previously objects of study for cartographers and geographers, the value of medieval maps to scholars in other fields is now recognised and this book, written from an art historical perspective, illuminates the medieval view of the world represented in a group of maps of c.1300. Naomi Kline's detailed examination of the literary, visual, oral and textual evidence of the Hereford mappa mundi and others like it, such as the Psalter Maps, the '"Sawley Map", and the Ebstorf Map, places them within the larger context of medieval art and intellectual history. The mappa mundi in Hereford cathedral is at the heart of this study: it has more than one thousand texts and images of geographical subjects, monuments, animals, plants, peoples, biblical sites and incidents, legendary material, historical information and much more; distinctions between "real" and "fantastic" are fluid; time and space are telescoped, presenting past, present, and future. Naomi Kline provides, for the first time, a full and detailed analysis of the images and texts of the Hereford map which, thus deciphered, allow comparison with related mappae mundi as well as with other texts and images. NAOMI REED KLINE is Professor of Art History at Plymouth State College.

The Cambridge History of the Mongol Empire 2 Volumes

Author : Michal Biran
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009301977
Total Pages : 1916 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge History of the Mongol Empire 2 Volumes written by Michal Biran and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-07-31 with total page 1916 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries Chinggis Khan and his progeny ruled over two-thirds of Eurasia. Connecting East, West, North and South, the Mongols integrated most of the Old World, promoting unprecedented cross-cultural contacts and triggering the reshuffle of religious, ethnic, and geopolitical identities. The Cambridge History of the Mongol Empire studies the Empire holistically in its full Eurasian context, putting the Mongols and their nomadic culture at the center. Written by an international team of more than forty leading scholars, this two-volume set provides an authoritative and multifaceted history of 'the Mongol Moment' (1206–1368) in world history and includes an unprecedented survey of the various sources for its study, textual (written in sisteen languages), archaeological, and visual. This groundbreaking Cambridge History sets a new standard for future study of the Empire. It will serve as the fundamental reference work for those interested in Mongol, Eurasian, and world history.

The Blackwell Companion to Eastern Christianity

Author : Ken Parry
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1444333615
Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (443 download)

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Download or read book The Blackwell Companion to Eastern Christianity written by Ken Parry and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-05-10 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now available in paperback, this Companion offers an unparalleled survey of the history, theology, doctrine, worship, art, culture and politics that make up the churches of Eastern Christianity. Covers both Byzantine traditions (such as the Greek, Russian and Georgian churches) and Oriental traditions (such as the Armenian, Coptic and Syrian churches) Brings together an international team of experts to offer the first book of its kind on the subject of Eastern Christianity Contributes to our understanding of recent political events in the Middle East and Eastern Europe by providing much needed background information May be used alongside The Blackwell Dictionary of Eastern Christianity (1999) for a complete student resource

Prester John

Author : Vsevolod Slessarev
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Prester John written by Vsevolod Slessarev and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Teaching the Global Middle Ages

Author : Geraldine Heng
Publisher : Modern Language Association
ISBN 13 : 1603295194
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Teaching the Global Middle Ages written by Geraldine Heng and published by Modern Language Association. This book was released on 2022-10-28 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While globalization is a modern phenomenon, premodern people were also interconnected in early forms of globalism, sharing merchandise, technology, languages, and stories over long distances. Looking across civilizations, this volume takes a broad view of the Middle Ages in order to foster new habits of thinking and develop a multilayered, critical sense of the past. The essays in this volume reach across disciplinary lines to bring insights from music, theater, religion, ecology, museums, and the history of disease into the literature classroom. The contributors provide guidance on texts such as the Thousand and One Nights, Sunjata, Benjamin of Tudela's Book of Travels, and the Malay Annals and on topics such as hotels, maps, and camels. They propose syllabus recommendations, present numerous digital resources, and offer engaging class activities and discussion questions. Ultimately, they provide tools that will help students evaluate popular representations of the Middle Ages and engage with the dynamics of past, present, and future world relationships.

Byzantinoslavica

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Byzantinoslavica written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Short History of the World

Author : John Morris Roberts
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 019511504X
Total Pages : 557 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book A Short History of the World written by John Morris Roberts and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1997 with total page 557 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronologically discusses the events of history beginning with the evolution of man and ending with the restructuring of Western Europe in 1993.

The Legend of Sir Perceval

Author : Jessie Laidlay Weston
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book The Legend of Sir Perceval written by Jessie Laidlay Weston and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Library of Congress Subject Headings

Author : Library of Congress
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1608 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (891 download)

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Download or read book Library of Congress Subject Headings written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 1608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Legend of Sir Perceval

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Publisher : Slatkine
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 748 pages
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Ecstatic Transformation

Author : M. Uebel
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137111402
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (371 download)

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Download or read book Ecstatic Transformation written by M. Uebel and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book studies the way in which medieval ways of knowing the Oriental 'other' were constructed around the idea of a utopic East as located in the legend and Letter of Prester John (c. 1160). The birth of utopic thinking, it argues, is tied to an understanding of alterity having as much to do with the ways the medieval West understood itself as the manner in which the foreign was mapped. Drawing upon the insights of cultural studies, film studies, and psychoanalysis, this book rethinks the contours of the known and the unknown in the medieval period. It demonstrates how the idea of otherness intersected in intricate ways with other categories of difference (spatial, gender, and religious). Scholars in the fields of history as well as literary and religious studies will be interested in the manner in which the book considers the formal dimensions of how histories of the Oriental other were written and lived.

Arthur, Origins, Identities and the Legendary History of Britain

Author : Jean Blacker
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900469188X
Total Pages : 579 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book Arthur, Origins, Identities and the Legendary History of Britain written by Jean Blacker and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2024-03-21 with total page 579 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geoffrey of Monmouth’s immensely popular Latin prose Historia regum Britanniae (c. 1138), followed by French verse translations – Wace’s Roman de Brut (1155) and anonymous versions including the Royal Brut, the Munich, Harley, and Egerton Bruts (12th -14th c.), initiated Arthurian narratives of many genres throughout the ages, alongside Welsh, English, and other traditions. Arthur, Origins, Identities and the Legendary History of Britain addresses how Arthurian histories incorporating the British foundation myth responded to images of individual or collective identity and how those narratives contributed to those identities. What cultural, political or psychic needs did these Arthurian narratives meet and what might have been the origins of those needs? And how did each text contribute to a “larger picture” of Arthur, to the construction of a myth that still remains so compelling today?

The Spectacle of the Body in Late Medieval England

Author : Estella Antoaneta Ciobanu
Publisher : Editura Lumen
ISBN 13 : 9731663150
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (316 download)

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Download or read book The Spectacle of the Body in Late Medieval England written by Estella Antoaneta Ciobanu and published by Editura Lumen. This book was released on 2012 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume The Spectacle of the Body in Late Medieval England represents a study on the human body representation in medieval England by approaching the concept of the spectacle as a space of manifestation. The author clarifies the ways of understanding the body as a physical and metaphorical reality, but also the medieval conceptualization of violence. On top of that, the author is making an investigation on the violent character of spectacles' representation in pursuit of picturing this subject more clearly and more relevant. The approach of the volume is dominantly Christian reviewing the representations of the body through outstanding figures of Christianity (crucifixion of Jesus Christ, body of Virgin Mary).

Searches for an Imaginary Kingdom

Author : Lev Nikolaevich Gumilev
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521322140
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (221 download)

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Download or read book Searches for an Imaginary Kingdom written by Lev Nikolaevich Gumilev and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This bold synthesis fills in many of the missing links between the histories of Europe and medieval China.

Postmodernism Across the Ages

Author : Bill Readings
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815625810
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (258 download)

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Download or read book Postmodernism Across the Ages written by Bill Readings and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 1993-11-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Piranesi builds a shopping mall, Giotto supervises a training analysis, Milton directs a film. In this text, the traditional notion of change in history, the linear analogy of human development, comes in for its own share of interpretation, of reading, and hence doubles back on itself.