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Prester John : the legend and its sources

Keagan Brewer (Translator)
Print Book, English, 2015
Ashgate, Farnham, Surrey, England, 2015
Sources
xiii, 340 s. ; 25 cm
9781409438076, 1409438074
1135492373
Contents: Foreword; Introduction: Believing in Prester John; The beginnings of Prester John (12th century); Prester John and the Fifth Crusade (early 13th century); Mongols and travel writers (mid-13th to 14th centuries); Prester John in Africa (15th to early 17th centuries); Legends and lies (late 16th and early 17th centuries); Unravelling Prester John (17th and 18th centuries); Appendices; Select bibliography of secondary sources; Index.