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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
Letters between John Ainsworth and Henry Ainsworth
12023-12-08T19:16:49-08:00Christopher Taylor // christopher.eric.taylor@gmail.com946e2cf6115688379f338b70e5b6f6c039f8ba6f52813plain2023-12-08T19:27:11-08:00Christopher Taylor // christopher.eric.taylor@gmail.com946e2cf6115688379f338b70e5b6f6c039f8ba6fIn a series of letters, John Ainsworth who had renounced Anglicanism and was imprisoned in London as a result, conducts a theological debate with Brownist minister Henry Ainsworth (no apparent relation).
In one of the letters, John Ainsworth, writing from Amsterdam, refers to Prester John in a rhetorical maneuver to show that Henry's supposed Catholicism was not grounded in history or reality:
If therfore you speak, let it be as the words of God; and if by his word you can say any thing to help you, show it, and by his grace, I will hear. Otherwise your assumed name Catholik, moves me no more then the name Apostolik, Pretegiani (corruptly called Prester John,) among the Ethiopians (from EEBO)
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12023-12-08T19:24:57-08:00Christopher Taylor // christopher.eric.taylor@gmail.com946e2cf6115688379f338b70e5b6f6c039f8ba6fRhetorical Uses of Prester JohnChristopher Taylor // christopher.eric.taylor@gmail.com1plain2023-12-08T19:24:57-08:00Christopher Taylor // christopher.eric.taylor@gmail.com946e2cf6115688379f338b70e5b6f6c039f8ba6f