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
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12023-11-24T14:48:25-08:00Christopher Taylor // christopher.eric.taylor@gmail.com946e2cf6115688379f338b70e5b6f6c039f8ba6f52811plain2023-11-24T14:48:25-08:00Christopher Taylor // christopher.eric.taylor@gmail.com946e2cf6115688379f338b70e5b6f6c039f8ba6fMarino Sanudo Torsello, The Book of the Secrets of the Faithful of the Cross, ed. and trans. by Peter Lock. Crusade Texts in Translation. London: Routledge, 2016.
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1media/Screen Shot 2018-01-09 at 9.11.43 PM.png2023-11-24T14:22:52-08:00Liber Fidelium Crucis4plain2023-11-24T14:56:31-08:00Written by Venetian geographer Marino Sanudo Toresello, the Liber Fidelium Crucis functions mainly as crusading propaganda in which the author advocates for a crusade in Egypt as a means of taking back Jerusalem, hearkening back to the Fifth Crusade.
In it, Marino relays a story about Prester John almost identical to that of Simon of St. Quentin.
As for the rest of the book, Sanudo adeptly discusses 13th-century Mediterranean history, especially those episodes that feature Louis IX of France and Charles of Anjou, king of Naples. The first two books outline the rationale of and logistics for his crusading plan, whereas the third book offers a history of the Crusades up the point of composition. Sanudo draws on other Prester John writers, including Jacques de Vitry, to supplement Sanudo's first-hand accounts.
Read the full text in a recent translated edition.