IMC 2021: Sessions
Session 222: In Search of the Apocalypse: New Research on Prester John, Prophecy, and Exploration
Monday 5 July 2021, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | Arc Humanities Press |
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| Organiser: | John Eldevik, Department of History, Hamilton College, New York |
| Moderator/Chair: | Adam Knobler, Centrum für Religionswissenschaftliche Studien, Ruhr-Universität Bochum |
| Paper 222-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 222-b | The German Empire and the Indian Kingdom: The Intertwining of Imperial Eschatological Expectations and the Legend of Prester John in Late Medieval Germany (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - German, Political Thought |
| Paper 222-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 12th century through Columbus's voyages. |