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9780761833888

Essays in Christian Mythology The Metamorphoses of Prester John

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  • ISBN13:

    9780761833888

  • ISBN10:

    0761833889

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2006-03-28
  • Publisher: UPA
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Summary

Essays in Christian Mythology deals with Christian literature interpreted as myth. The work offers detailed analysis and anthropological interpretation of a body of Christian medieval texts, which confirm the existence of a mythological discourse based on the biblical narratives. Essays in Christian Mythology focuses on Prester John, an imaginary oriental sovereign fabled to have offered to establish an alliance with the West in order to liberate the Holy Land. This intriguing work reviews the symbolic dualism in medieval Christianity and the symbolic relations between Christ as heir of the Heavenly Kingdom and the Devil as the "Prince of this World." In addition, Essays explores the roots of renaissance Iberian discovery travels and their literary expressions in this medieval Christian-mythological discourse.

Author Biography

Manuel Joao Ramos is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the ISCTE, Lisbon.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements iv
Prologue vi
Introduction: Beyond Adversative Binarism 1(16)
PART I
17(58)
Heuristic Problems: Reading is Believing
19(10)
Text and Context of the Letter of Prester John
29(8)
Wonders of Christian India
37(8)
The Patriarch, the King and the River
45(8)
An Oriental Christ-mimesis
53(10)
Instruments of Divine Will
63(12)
PART II
75(54)
Do Kings ever Die? Asian Travels
76(11)
Naked at the Gates of Eden
87(10)
A Presbyter and a Patriarch
97(9)
Rex, Sacerdos et Niger
106(11)
``Blinded by the Rays of the Roman Faith.''
117(12)
PART III
129(64)
To See a Mirror and Die
130(14)
The King and the Beggar: an Incursion into the Apocrypha
144(10)
A Hymn That Fell from Heaven
154(15)
Of Doves and Serpents
169(14)
What is a Fallen Angel?
183(10)
PART IV
193(46)
The Brother of the ``King's Son''
194(8)
The Devil in His Body
202(9)
...And God entered Hell
211(9)
The Cursed Death of Christ
220(19)
Epilogue
Believing is Seeing 239(14)
Final Note 253
Notes 250(26)
Bibliography 276(8)
Index 284

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