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One who owes a debt or the performance of an obligation to another, who is called the creditor; one who may be compelled to pay a claim or demand; anyone liable on a claim, whether due or to become due. In bankruptcy law, a person who files a voluntary petition or person against whom an involuntary petition is filed. A person or municipality concerning which a bankruptcy case has been commenced.
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Who was Prester John?
Magazine article from: Calliope; 4/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...in A.D. 1165. Signed by a "Prester John," it said that he ruled a fabulous...In this land, according to Prester John, could be found huge quantities...kings were said to pay homage to Prester John, yet he chose the simple name...
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The Realm of Prester John.(Review)
Magazine article from: Utopian Studies; 3/22/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...Robert Silverberg. The Realm of Prester John. Athens: Ohio UP, 1996. 344...As an archeology of the myth of Prester John, it makes available an interesting...medieval readers of the Letter of Prester John, on which the myth was based...
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Meetings with Prester John.(Poem)
Magazine article from: TriQuarterly; 9/22/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...written, next to Addis Ababa, Prester John. Father collected travel books...my clandestine rendezvous' with Prester John--wait, I'm getting ahead...barbarian, but he's the kind of lout Prester John was imagined for, as antidote...
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Books: Al-Jub and his mate go in search of an eastern King Arthur HISTORY/TRAVEL; The Prester Quest By Nicholas Jubber DOUBLEDAY pounds 14.99 pounds 13.99 (P&P FREE) 08700 798 897
Newspaper article from: The Independent on Sunday; 4/3/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...for the legendary priest-king Prester John is quixotic to the point of madness...begins with two letters: one from Prester John to the Byzantine emperor, Manuel...other from Pope Alexander III to Prester John. Manuel represented the closest...
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Ethiopia: The land of prester John.
Magazine article from: Contemporary Review; 11/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...THE legendary wealthy kingdom of Prester John exerted such a prodigious influence...despatched a messenger to him in 1177. Prester John was reputed to have withstood the...messenger never returned. So did Prester John exist and, if so, who was he...
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A letter that's 828 years late Justin Marozzi on how a 12th-century papal missive to Prester John inspired a modern-day jauntContinuing our series, we look at the story behind Author Authorso's Title Ttileytoo
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 4/17/2005; ; 700+ words
; AS LEGENDS go, the story of Prester John and his med-ieval priestly kingdom...quences, however. In searching for Prester John's kingdom, European explorers...who may - or may not - have been Prester John. Mission (and literary conceit...
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Books & Internet: Trace footsteps of a real legend; THE PRESTER QUEST By NICHOLAS JUBBER (Doubleday pounds 14.99.(Features)
Newspaper article from: Birmingham Evening Mail (England); 5/21/2005; 437 words
; Byline: GARY YOUNG THE Prester Quest reads like a historical romp...Master Philip - with a letter for Prester John, the mysterious legendary Christian...Baudolino will remember, the legend of Prester John is associated with many exotic...
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The Prester quest.(book)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 8/1/2006; 494 words
; 0385607024 The Prester quest. Jubber, Nicholas. Doubleday UK 2005 516 pages $24.95...in 1177 by Pope Alexander III to the priest-king of the Indies, Prester John. No one knew if such a person or kingdom actually existed, and the...
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Essays in Christian Mythology: The Metamorphosis of Prester John.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 8/1/2006; 457 words
; ...Essays in Christian mythology; the metamorphosis of Prester John. Ramos, Mauuel Joao. Univ. Press of America 2006...his topics are the text and context of the Letter of Prester John, naked at the gates of Eden, a hymn that fell from...
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Prester John's workbook: Joseph Conrad, Edmund Candler, John Towson, and some imperial others.
Magazine article from: Conradiana; 3/22/2005; ; 700+ words
; Here, then, is the forbidden land. One's eyes explore dimly through a haze. One would not have it laid out with the precision of a diagram Here was civilization longing for the wilderness, and over there, beyond the mist were men in the wilderness longing for civilization That implacable barrier
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Prester John
Book article from: Myths and Legends of the World
Prester John According to medieval legend, Prester John was a Christian king who ruled over an Asian land. The story of Prester John started around the time of the Crusades, the military...
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Pedro de Covilhão
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...about the mysterious kingdom of Prester John, the legendary priest-king...In order to pursue the legend of Prester John, Covilhão unilaterally...death. He traced the legend of Prester John to Abyssinia (Ethiopia). While...
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Vasco da Gama
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...Europeans by the legend of the powerful priest-king, Prester John) and thus carry on a worldwide crusade against Islam...India Da Gama, supplied with letters of introduction to Prester John and to the ruler of the Malabar city of Calicut, set...
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Henry the Navigator
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...mythical "Indies" Christian kingdom of Prester John, the wealthy and powerful priest-king of medieval legend. The Prester's domains had been variously located...Africa and the Atlantic Islands King John wished to satisfy the avarice and...
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Nzinga Nkuwu
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...and an anti-Islamic alliance with the semimythical Prester John, Christian king of the Indies. In reality the manikongo...plus a few soldiers with orders to search overland for Prester John. By 1500 the Kongo "experiment" was at least temporarily...
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