The Myth of Pope Joan by Alain Boureau, Lydia G. Cochrane

The Myth of Pope Joan

Alain Boureau, Lydia G. Cochrane

400 pages first pub 1988 (view editions)

nonfiction history challenging medium-paced
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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 a...

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