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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
Ecclesiastical and Political History of the Great and Remote Kingdoms of Ethiopia
1media/Figure-4.-The-1610-and-1611-volumes-by-Spanish-monk-Luis-de-Urreta-which-present-a.png2015-07-30T04:04:47-07:00Christopher Taylor // christopher.eric.taylor@gmail.com946e2cf6115688379f338b70e5b6f6c039f8ba6f528115image_header2016-07-27T14:11:34-07:00Christopher Taylor // christopher.eric.taylor@gmail.com946e2cf6115688379f338b70e5b6f6c039f8ba6fHistoria eclesiastica, politica, natvral, y moral, de los grandes y remotos reynos de la Ethiopia, monarchia del emperador, llamado Preste Iuan de las Indias (1610)
[Ecclesiastical and Political History of the Great and Remote Kingdoms of Ethiopia, Monarchy of the Emperor Called the Prester John of the Indies]
Composed by Luis de Urreta, the Historia attempts to explain how the emperor of Ethiopia came to be known as Prester John. His theory was that the actual name for the emperor, Baldigian, became incorrectly westernized as 'Prester John' over time. Urreta posits that the real Prester John was an Asian monarch descended from the Magi. His account bears a clear similarity to the account of Otto of Freising some 450 years earlier. Urreta's account was criticized by his contemporaries who continued to believe in the Ethiopian Prester John, including Balthazar Tellez, who rebuts Urreta's theory in his Travel of the Jesuits in Ethiopia.
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1media/Abyssinia, or Ethiopia.jpg2016-02-11T10:20:00-08:00Christopher Taylor // christopher.eric.taylor@gmail.com946e2cf6115688379f338b70e5b6f6c039f8ba6fEthiopian Prester JohnChristopher Taylor // christopher.eric.taylor@gmail.com6image_header2023-11-22T14:22:25-08:00Christopher Taylor // christopher.eric.taylor@gmail.com946e2cf6115688379f338b70e5b6f6c039f8ba6f
