She is the legend that will not die- -Pope Joan, a. Christianity in the 9th century as the first and only woman to. St. In this riveting novel, Donna Woolfolk. Cross paints a sweeping portrait of a heroine whose strength of vision. Brilliant and talented, young Joan rebels against medieval laws. When her older brother is brutally killed. Viking attack, Joan takes up his identity and enters the. Donna Woolfolk Cross, Pope Joan Ballantine Books, ISBN 0-345-41626-0; Rosemary and Darrell Pardoe, The Female Pope: The Mystery of Pope Joan. Fulda, where she is initiated into the brotherhood in his. As Brother John Anglicus, Joan distinguishes herself as a great. Eventually she is drawn to Rome, where she becomes. Triumphing. over appalling odds, she finally attains the highest throne in. Christendom, wielding a power greater than any woman before or since. Peter's, the famous. Borgo that destroyed over three- quarters of the Vatican, the. Battle of Fontenoy, arguably the bloodiest and most terrible of medieval. This masterwork of suspense and passion brings the Dark Ages.
The fable about a female pope, who afterwards bore the name of Johanna (Joan), is first noticed in the middle of the thirteenth century.
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