Composite Map
In addition to plotting over six centuries worth of information, this map depicts four layers: author origins (orange), author travels (red), textual origins (blue), and Prester John kingdom locations (polygons, shaded light to dark according to the year ascribed to the Prester John sighting). Each point on the map is clickable and will bring up data about that particular author, text, or Prester John sighting.
While this map illustrates something of the sheer volume of Prester John data available as well as the legend’s global reach, it does not tell much of a story in itself. In the following section, I will break this data down in a series of maps organized by what I will henceforth refer to as “eras” of the legend. I have designated five such eras. In the following section, I will use these maps to help tell the global story of Prester John. In this Version 1.0, I will focus particularly on the first two eras, though I will provide maps to help illustrate all five.
