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| #2057935 in Books | 2001-05-01 | 2001-05-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x1.02 x6.00l,1.19 | File type: PDF | 400 pages||34 of 35 people found the following review helpful.| Reasoned and well researched|By Dr. John B. Switzer, ObSB|It is a joy to see this finely researched volume on a topic of such mythic proportions. I have read several other books on the topic, but it is difficult to find writers who are interested in historical reality when it comes to Pope Joan. As a Roman Catholic theologian concerned with the all-male prerogative regardin|From Publishers Weekly|Fact or fiction: in the ninth century, a woman named Joan donned britches and entered the male preserve of Catholic scholarship; she was so savvy and smart that she eventually became pope, only to die giving birth two years later. This boo
In the ninth century, a brilliant young woman named Joan disguised herself as a man so that she could follow her lover into the then-exclusively male world of scholarship. She proved so successful that she ascended the Catholic hierarchy in Rome and was eventually elected pope. Her pontificate lasted two years, until she became pregnant and died after giving birth during a public procession from the Vatican.
Or so the legend goes—a legend that was fabri...
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