Tongues of Prester John
Author | : Joseph Biddulph |
Publisher | : Joseph Biddulph Publisher |
Total Pages | : 66 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Joseph Biddulph |
Publisher | : Joseph Biddulph Publisher |
Total Pages | : 66 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Robert Silverberg |
Publisher | : Ohio University Press |
Total Pages | : 471 |
Release | : 2020-12-04 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0821441221 |
In this modern account of the genesis of a great medieval myth, celebrated science fiction author Robert Silverberg’s explores the mysterious origins of Prester John, the astonishing Christian potentate of the East. Prester John was a legendary figure who cast a powerful spell over Latin Christendom for almost five centuries. Rumors of the warrior-king-prelate’s fabulous realms first reached Europe in the eleventh century and quickly assumed an exalted status alongside such fabled wonders as El Dorado, The Fountain of Youth, and the Holy Grail. The defeat of a Moslem Turkish tribe by a Buddhist Chinese warlord seems to have been the unlikely historical nugget around which the Prester John myth grew, but contributions to this strange saga have also been traced all around the globe to the Apostle Thomas' apocryphal preaching in India, to the actual existence of small colonies of Nestorian schismatics in central Asia, and even to Genghis Khan.
Author | : Keagan Brewer |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 2019-08-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1317076052 |
The legend of Prester John has received much scholarly attention over the last hundred years, but never before have the sources been collected and coherently presented to readers. This book now brings together a fully-representative set of texts setting out the many and various sources from which we get our knowledge of the legend. These texts, spanning a time period from the Crusades to the Enlightenment, are presented in their original languages and in English translation (for many it is the first time they have been available in English). The story of the mysterious oriental leader Prester John, ruler of a land teeming with marvels who may come to the aid of Christians in the Levant, held an intense grip on the medieval mind from the first references in twelfth-century Crusader literature and into the early-modern period. But Prester John was a man of shifting identity, being at different times and for different reasons associated with Chingis Khan and the Mongols, with the Christian kingdom of Ethiopia, with China, Tibet, South Africa and West Africa. In order to orient the reader, each of these iterations is explained in the comprehensive introduction, and in the introductions to texts and sections. The introduction also raises a thorny question not often considered: whether or not medieval audiences believed in the reality of Prester John and the Prester John Letter. The book is completed with three valuable appendices: a list of all known references to Prester John in medieval and early modern sources, a thorough description of the manuscript traditions of the all-important Prester John Letter, and a brief description of Prester John in the history of cartography.
Author | : Cates Baldridge |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2014-01-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0786490195 |
During the 16th century, Portugal endeavored to locate the mythical kingdom of Prester John--a Christian nation rumored to be somewhere in the Orient, amidst the pagans and Muslims. This study chronicles Portugal's final attempt, a six-year odyssey in Ethiopia that resulted in a tragicomic collision with a proud but isolated Christian kingdom. After summarizing the Prester John myth and the many efforts it spawned, the work focuses on the Ethiopian mission's chronicler, Father Francisco Alvares, who fell in love with the country and its people, became a friend of its king, hid the Abyssinians' heresies from his superiors, and set in motion events that saved Ethiopia from imminent destruction. Unique in the annals of Europeans' initial contacts with African peoples, the Portuguese mission is a portrait of hopeful preconceptions buffeted and eventually transformed by encounters with a fascinating, utterly unexpected reality.
Author | : Dr Curtis Hutson |
Publisher | : Sword of the Lord Publishers |
Total Pages | : 24 |
Release | : 2000-08 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780873988407 |
Author | : Janet Brazee |
Publisher | : Destiny Image Publishers |
Total Pages | : 41 |
Release | : 2014-08-03 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0989142914 |
On the day of Pentecost centuries ago, 120 believers sat in the Upper Room waiting. The Holy Ghost rushed in like a mighty wind and tongues of fire sat on each one. Saturated with the presence of God, these new believers began to speak in a supernatural language that set them ablaze for all the world to see. Now, some 2,000 years later, you also can speak this supernatural language that will fill you up, charge you up and fire you up for God. Pastor Janet Brazee shares: - Scriptural evidence of tongues - How you can quickly and easily receive - Why tongues is something you cant live without.
Author | : John Skinner |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 361 |
Release | : 1998-09-18 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1349268984 |
There are numerous twentieth century writers in English who are not technically native speakers of the language, and whose relation to it is ambivalent, problematic or even hostile: by a simple kinship analogy one may often speak of the 'stepmother tongue'. Whilst fully aware of the current debates in postcolonial theory, John Skinner is also conscious of its sometimes unhelpful complexities and contradictions. The focus of this study is thus firmly on the fictional practice of the writers discussed. He offers the reader an insight into the diversity and rewards of contemporary anglophone fiction, whilst analysing some eighty individual texts. A uniquely comprehensive guide, the book will be welcomed by students and teachers of postcolonial literature.