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0. Front matter -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Note on Transliteration and Style -- List of Figures and Maps -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Historiography: Prester John between Past and Present -- Objectives and Methodology -- CHAPTER 1. Setting a Geographic and Mythico-historical Stage for the Prester John Legend -- 1. Setting a Geographic Scope -- 1.1. Eastern Christians: Nestorians of Prester John -- 2. Myth and Legend versus History? -- 2.1. Myth -- 2.2. Legend -- 2.3. History -- 2.4. The Relationship between Myth, Legend and History -- 3. A Prehistory of the Prester John Legend -- CHAPTER 2. Between Transmission and Reception: The Birth of the Prester John Legend and the Crusader-Muslim Conflict, 1122-1145 -- 1. The St. Thomas Tradition and the Origin of Prester John -- 2. The Prester John Legend by Otto of Freising -- 3. The Fall of Edessa: The Birth of the Legend and an Actual John (Mār Yūḥannā) -- 4. The Battle of Qaṭwān (536/1141) and the Prester John Legend -- 5. Conclusion -- CHAPTER 3. The Prester John Letter and its Perception between the Crusading Crisis in the Levant and Imperial- Papal Schism in the West -- 1. The Legend and the Second Crusade (1145-49) -- 2. The Prester John Letter, ca. 1165-70 -- 3. The Letter, the Byzantine Emperor and the Crusades -- 4. The Letter and the Imperial-Papal Conflict, 1154-1177 -- 5. The Letter of Pope Alexander III to Prester John in 1177 -- 6. The Two Letters between Reception and Perception -- 6.1. Prester John's Letter between Circulation and Reception -- 6.2. The Perception of Pope Alexander's Letter -- 7. Conclusion -- CHAPTER 4. Imaging the Prester John Kingdom in the Three Indias: The Legend's Entanglements with Alexander Romance, Jewish and Arab Muslim-Christian Imagination -- 1. The Prester John Kingdom and Alexander Romance. 1.1. The Letter between Alexandrian Tales and Jewish Travels -- 2. The Arab Geographic Conception of Indian Christian King(s) in the Twelfth Century -- 3. Prester John and the Mythical Indian Tales in the Arabian Nights -- 4. Coptic Perception of the Legendary Priest-king (John) in the Twelfth Century -- 5. Transferring the Figures of Nubian and Abyssinian Kings into Europe during the Crusades -- 6. Conclusion -- CHAPTER 5. Waiting for King David, Son of Prester John: The Impact of the Legend on Peace and War during the Fifth Crusade (615-618/1217-1221) -- 1. The Legend between Silence and Rebirth -- 2. Rumours and Prophecies of an Imminent Christian King -- 3. King David and the Capture of Damietta: Obstructing Peace and Stimulating War -- 3.1. Awaiting King David and the Fiasco of the Fifth Crusade -- 4. The Arabic Prophecy of King David: The Entanglements with Nestorian, Coptic and Ethiopian Prophecies/Apocalypse -- 4.1. A Syriac-Arabic Figure of the Christian King (David) -- 4.2. A Coptic-Arabic Figure of Christian King (David) -- 4.3. An Ethiopian Figure of King David in Kébra Nagast -- 5. King David and the Mongols: Associating Imagination with Reality -- 5.1. Prester John/King David on the Eve of the Fifth Crusade -- 6. Conclusion -- CHAPTER 6. The Mongol Figure of Prester John: Remembering the Legend and the Enterprise of Latin-Mongol Crusade(s), 1222-1300 -- 1. The Legend, Frederick II's Crusade and the Aftermath, 1127-1245 -- 2. Prester John and the Papal-European Missions to the Mongols, 1245-48 -- 3. The Legend and the Crusade of Louis IX against Egypt, 1248-1254 -- 4. William of Rubruck and Re-imagining Prester John -- 5. The Entanglement of Prester John with Ung Khan in Eastern Accounts -- 6. The Legend and the Late-Thirteenth Century Attempts of a Mongol-Latin Crusade -- 7. Conclusion -- CONCLUSION -- Bibliography -- Index.