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In 1165 a strange letter arrived at the court of the emperor of Byzantium. It was sent by a certain Prester John, a priest-king who claimed to dominate vast and fabulous territories. For centuries kings, popes and explorers will search for him, but is there something true behind his legendary figure?
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• Primary sources:
Álvares F., Verdadeira informação das terras do Preste João, written between 1520 and 1526, published in 1540 by Rodrigues L.
Continuatio Annales Admutenses, edit. Wattenbach W., in «Monumenta Germaniae historica. Scriptores-Hannoveræ», IX, 1858, p. 580
De Vitry J., Historia Orientalis, c.1224
Letter of Prester John, c.1165
Odorico da Pordenone, Itinerarium, c.1331
Otto of Freising, Chronica, sive Historia de duabus civitatibus, 1157
Relatio de Rege David, c.1221
The Travels of Marco Polo, c.1298
• Essays and insights:
R. Silverberg, The Realm of Prester John, 1972
Richard J., L'Extrême-Orient légendaire au Moyen Âge: Roi David et Prêtre Jean, in «Annales d'Ethiopie», II, n. 2, 1957, p. 225-244
Bar-Ilan M., Prester John: Fiction and History, in «History of European Ideas», Vol.XX, 1-3, 1995, pp. 291-298
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Chapters:
00:00 The Letter of Prester John
01:44 Elements of historicity in the Letter
08:14 Research in Ethiopia
12:11 Marco Polo and Wang Khan
17:34 The Chronicle of Otto of Freising
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