Searches for an imaginary kingdom : the legend of the kingdom of Prester John
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Searches for an imaginary kingdom : the legend of the kingdom of Prester John
(Past and present publications)
Cambridge University Press, 1987
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Поиски вымышленного царства
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Translation of: Поиски вымышленного царства
Bibliography: p. 379-387
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The so called 'Kingdom of Prester John' was a Christian power thought to exist in Central Asia at the time of the twelfth-century crusades. At a deeper level, for the steppe peoples it constitutes a distant dynamic which led to the world-shattering rise of Mongol power under Chinggis (Genghis) Khan. The book ranges widely in subject matter, space and time. Christian history and ecological, demographic, social and economic history are all interwoven with the politics, religions and literature of the vast and varied area between European Russia and China from c800 to 1300. The author's views are distinctive and stimulating and are not always accepted by western specialists. But his bold synthesis fills in many of the missing links between histories of Europe and medieval China and makes it possible to think of these vast areas as, in some senses, parts of a greater whole.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Foreword
- Translator's notes
- Part I. The Trefoil of the Writing Desk: 1. Overcoming the study of letters
- 2. An excursion into geography
- 3. The road through history
- Part II. The Trefoil of the Bird's Eye View: 4. The dark century (861-960)
- 5. The shattered silence (961-1100)
- 6. Foreshadowing the legend's hero (1100-1143)
- Part III. The Trefoil of the Barrow: 7. The courage and ruin of King David (1143-1218)
- 8. The loss of a dream (1218-1259)
- 9. Dealing with the Conquerors (1259-1312)
- Part IV. The Trefoil of the Mouse-hole: 10. The tastes and sympathies of the author of the secret history
- 11. Jamuqa-sechen under investigation
- 12. Two in one
- Part V. The Trefoil of the Tree of Thought: 13. An attempt to overcome self-deception
- 14. A space-time scheme
- 15. Construction of hypotheses
- Bibliography
- Index.
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