The International Prester John Project: How A Global Legend Was Created Across Six Centuries

Historie of the Seaven Champions of Christendom

Historie of the Seaven Champions of Christendom (c. 1596), now known simply as The Seven Champions of Christendom, is the first of two romances by Richard Johnson to feature the character and realm of Prester John (the other being Tom a Lincoln).

As Niayesh (p. 164) points out, here Prester John "has stopped being Prester John and is cast as the 'King if Babylon', a title recalling the 'Sowdone of Babylone'," an almost archetypal "Saracen" antagonist of early medieval romance. 

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