IMC 2020: Sessions
Session 105: In Search of the Apocalypse: New Research on Prester John, Prophecy, and Exploration
Monday 6 July 2020, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | Arc Humanities Press |
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| Organiser: | John Eldevik, Department of History, Hamilton College, New York |
| Moderator/Chair: | John Eldevik, Department of History, Hamilton College, New York |
| Paper 105-a | Monastic Cosmologies and Manuscript Matrices: The Earliest Copies of Prester John's Letter (Language: English) Index terms: Crusades, Ecclesiastical History, Language and Literature - Latin, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Paper 105-b | The Motif of the 'Dry Tree': Between mirabilia Orientis and Crusading Eschatology (Language: English) Index terms: Crusades, Theology |
| Paper 105-c | Prophecy and 'Discovery': Christopher Columbus's Journey to the Far East (Language: English) Index terms: Geography and Settlement Studies, Theology |
| Abstract | This panel explores a series of intertwining themes that grew out of the extraordinary impact of the so-called legend of Prester John and later medieval European efforts to document and create knowledge about the East, particularly through the lenses of salvation history, the Crusades, and eschatological concerns. This session brings together three papers that explore both the genesis and the long-term consequences of this way of understanding the significance of Asia from a variety of historical perspectives and time periods, from the twelfth century through Columbus's voyages. |