The International Prester John Project: How A Global Legend Was Created Across Six Centuries

De Vita Galfridi Archiepiscopi Eboracensis

This text (c. 1183-1206), written by celebrated author Gerald of Wales (c. 1146-c.1223), is one of the author's lesser known but contains what is perhaps the first "rhetorical" reference to Prester John (Brewer's term), wherein a man is described as being as arrogant and boastful as Prester John.

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