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Pope Joan with tiara as . According to Medieval legend, Pope Joan (also known as Pope Joanna or La Papessa) was a female pope who allegedly reigned for less than two years in the 850s C.E. under the name Pope John VIII/Johannes VIII (formerly John Anglicus). [1] She is described as being a very theologically gifted orator with a perspicacity ...
Jun 9, 2009 · Pope Joan was a selection of the Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Clubs. It is an international bestseller, translated into 36 different languages. In Germany, Pope Joan was the #1 bestseller for over three years. It is still on the list of longterm German bestsellers.
Oct 22, 2020 · Pope Joan gives birth during a Church procession, artist Giovanni Boccaccio Circa 1450. (Public Domain)The Story of the Female Pope in Disguise Spreads. The story of the female pope in disguise is then picked up by an anonymous Franciscan friar of Erfurt in his Chronica minor, and by the Dominican inquisitor and preacher, Etienne de Bourbon.
Here occurs for the first time the name of Johanna (Joan) as that of the alleged popess. Martin of Troppau had lived at the Curia as papal chaplain and penitentiary (he died 1278), for which reason his papal history was widely read, and through him the tale obtained general acceptance.
Feb 22, 2021 · Two Pope Joan films, in 1972 and 2009, present her as a feminist character. And Rihanna showed up to the 2018 Met Gala in a gender-bending pope outfit that strongly implied this, too.
Plot Summary. Donna Woolfolk Cross’s debut historical novel, Pope Joan (1996), is a fictionalized account of the ninth-century woman who disguised herself as a man, later becoming the first female pope. The bestselling book received impressive reviews following its publication, and screenwriters later adapted it for both film and television.
