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

Map 2.3 : Explore Prester John's Kingdoms

In this visualization, we trace Prester John's locations as a cognate to a longstanding attempt to instill an imperial logic of Christian expansion from the dawn of the Crusades to the imperialism of later centuries.
 
This map indicates the theoretical locations for Prester John's kingdom, as imagined by contemporary texts. The polygons represent the locations of the imagined kingdoms of Prester John. 
 
Click on the individual polygons on the map to see detailed information on which author and text mention that specific kingdom.
 


 
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