The International Prester John Project: How A Global Legend Was Created Across Six CenturiesMain MenuOrientation to ProjectPath One: 1122-1235Path Two: 1236-1310 ADPath Three : 1311-1460 ADPath Four : 1461-1520 ADPath Five: 1521-1699 ADPath Six: 1700-1800 ADChristopher Taylor // christopher.eric.taylor@gmail.com946e2cf6115688379f338b70e5b6f6c039f8ba6f Global Middle Ages
Embassy from the East-India Company
1media/Screen Shot 2023-12-13 at 6.58.48 PM.png2023-12-13T16:08:40-08:00Christopher Taylor // christopher.eric.taylor@gmail.com946e2cf6115688379f338b70e5b6f6c039f8ba6f52813plain2023-12-13T18:01:12-08:00Christopher Taylor // christopher.eric.taylor@gmail.com946e2cf6115688379f338b70e5b6f6c039f8ba6fDutch traveler and member of the East India Company Johannes Nieuhof (1618-1672) wrote an account of his travels to China in his Embassy from the East-India Company (1673). He places the roots of the Prester John story in that country, at what amounts to the Tibetan plateau, according to Brewer (p. 250). In other words, Nieuhof plants the seeds for the Prester John as Dalai Lama narrative path.
Nieuhof's text includes other accounts which themselves mention Prester John, including Michael Boim's Letter(1653) and Athanasius Kircher's China Illustrata(1667).
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1media/Screen Shot 2023-12-13 at 6.58.48 PM.pngmedia/Screen Shot 2023-12-13 at 11.33.05 PM.png2023-12-13T21:52:18-08:00Atlas Chinesis5image_header2023-12-13T22:40:55-08:00Dutch minister and headmaster Arnold Montanus wrote Atlas Chinesis (1671) as a compendium of previously reported information about China. As Brewer notes (p. 248), he relied principally on members of the Dutch East India company, and his account of the geography of Prester John's kingdom resembles that of Johannes Nieuhof's Embassy from the East-India Company, published two years later. Montanus places Prester John's kingdom west of Sichuan, putting him in Tibet (here called Sifan).
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