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The talk, based on his forthcoming book, Reading Prester John: Cultural Fantasy and its Manuscript Contexts, argued that the manuscript reception and transmission of the famous Letter of Prester John holds important clues about his origins in twelfth-century Bavaria. During his stay as a guest scholar at the Institute during his fall 2012 leave, Eldevik began the research that would form the basis of the book.