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ROGERS (Francis M.). THE QUEST for Eastern Christians: Travels and Rumor in the Age of Discovery. Minneapolis. 1962. - ROGERS (Francis M.) THE QUEST for Eastern Christians: Travels and Rumor in the Age of Discovery . Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1962. xiv, 222, [2] pp.: il.; 225 mm. This study, based on the Lowell Lectures delivered in Boston in 1959-60, examines the dream of a Christian India as one of the motives for European voyages to the East at the end of the Middle Ages and during the Renaissance, alongside the desire for knowledge, trade, and missionary zeal. The author seeks to establish a direct link between news about Christians in India and Ethiopia, which circulated in Jerusalem from early Christian times and was disseminated in the West by pilgrims, and the Portuguese presence in southern India and the Ethiopian highlands at the beginning of the 16th century. It gives particular emphasis to old printed books and pamphlets that circulated accurate information and rumors, from Latin brochures and texts in vernacular verse to literature about Portugal, Prester John and the Christians of St. Thomas, including the Council of Florence. It includes a chronological list of old printed works from 1467 to 1546, a bibliography, reproductions of pages from some of these books, and a genealogical chart of Christian nations and sects. First edition. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate