🔴 📖 **John Eldevik on Reading Prester John**

"_Much of the interest in Prester John appears to have been driven by apocalyptic theology and ideas about the Crusades, the culmination of history, and Christianity’s conflict with Islam. As for where this thing originated, one of the things I do is show how it’s really a composite text that was woven together out of several pre-existing traditions about this priest-king John, the emperor Manuel, and Christian lands in Asia._"

🔗 **https://www.arc-humanities.org/blog/2024/09/02/john-eldevik-on-reading-prester-john/**

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