People, Places, and Mobility: The Strange History of Prester John across the Indian Ocean

dc.contributor.author Mukherjee, Rila
dc.date.accessioned 2022-03-27T01:54:38Z
dc.date.available 2022-03-27T01:54:38Z
dc.date.issued 2018-01-01
dc.description.abstract The worlds of Central Asia and the Indian Ocean have been seen as discrete, seemingly unconnected except by way of the vertical silk roads descending through feeder routes into port cities situated along the Indian Ocean and its many seas, gulfs, and bays. Before Central Asia lost historical centrality and was regarded increasingly as a blank space on the map, it was a dynamic region. The Indian Ocean world with its spice, cotton, and silk routes was more known, having entered European geographical knowledge - and fantasy - from antiquity. The two worlds - terrestrial and oceanic - have been seen as diametrically opposed, with historiography privileging the latter. This essay links the two worlds by evoking people, places, and mobility through the legend of Prester John, a mysterious Christian monarch and putative ally against Muslims.
dc.identifier.citation Asian Review of World Histories. v.6(2)
dc.identifier.issn 2287965X
dc.identifier.uri 10.1163/22879811-12340037
dc.identifier.uri https://brill.com/view/journals/arwh/6/2/article-p258_5.xml
dc.identifier.uri https://dspace.uohyd.ac.in/handle/1/4343
dc.subject Central Asia
dc.subject geographic imagination and geography
dc.subject global history
dc.subject Prester John
dc.title People, Places, and Mobility: The Strange History of Prester John across the Indian Ocean
dc.type Journal. Article
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