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T1 La Carta del Preste Juan de las Indias. Un ejemplo de la superación de las fronteras culturales y del interés europeo por el mundo maravilloso de Oriente
T2 Prester John of the Indies’s Epistle: Overcoming the cultural frontiers and the European interest in the wonders of the East
A1 González Rolán, Tomás
K1 Epístola
K1 Preste Juan
K1 rey
K1 sacerdote
K1 realidad
K1 ficción
AB This work deals with the Latin text entitled Epistola presbiteri Johannis, written between 1150and 1160 and erroneously attributed to the mythical Prester John, a king and priest of the ThreeIndias who allegedly would have sent this letter to the Byzantine Manuel Comnenus and theWesterner Frederick Barbarossa. Although the epistle authorship has been proved a fake, from the12th to the 15th centuries not only its veracity but that of Prester John as a real character were welltaken for granted. This work analyzes his historical and literary profile and tries to approach thepossible messages that the text conveyed at the time. In so doing, the most representative editionsof the Latin text, as well as its translations, adaptations and rewritings will be taken into account.
PB Universidad de La Laguna. Servicio de Publicaciones
SN 1135-125X
YR 2014
FD 2014
LK http://riull.ull.es/xmlui/handle/915/4214
UL http://riull.ull.es/xmlui/handle/915/4214
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DS Repositorio institucional de la Universidad de La Laguna
RD 25-nov-2024