Cross, Donna Woolfolk
Pope Joan : a novel / Donna Woolfolk Cross. - 1st Three Rivers Press ed. - New York, N.Y. : Three Rivers Press, c2009. - 425 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Originally published: New York : Crown, c1996.
The life of a 9th Century Englishwoman who, disguised as a man, rose to become the only woman to sit on the throne of St. Peter. Rebelling against the strictures of her age -- which forbade women to learn to read and write--Joan took the identity of her dead brother and entered a monastery.
9780307452368 (pbk.)
Joan (Legendary Pope)--Fiction.
Popes--Legends--Fiction.
Church history--Middle Ages, 600-1500--Fiction.
Women--History--Middle Ages, 500-1500--Fiction
813.54 / CRO 2009
Pope Joan : a novel / Donna Woolfolk Cross. - 1st Three Rivers Press ed. - New York, N.Y. : Three Rivers Press, c2009. - 425 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Originally published: New York : Crown, c1996.
The life of a 9th Century Englishwoman who, disguised as a man, rose to become the only woman to sit on the throne of St. Peter. Rebelling against the strictures of her age -- which forbade women to learn to read and write--Joan took the identity of her dead brother and entered a monastery.
9780307452368 (pbk.)
Joan (Legendary Pope)--Fiction.
Popes--Legends--Fiction.
Church history--Middle Ages, 600-1500--Fiction.
Women--History--Middle Ages, 500-1500--Fiction
813.54 / CRO 2009