Pope Joan : a novel / Donna Woolfolk Cross.
By: Cross, Donna Woolfolk.
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Three Rivers Press, c2009Edition: 1st Three Rivers Press ed.Description: 425 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.ISBN: 9780307452368 (pbk.).Subject(s): Joan (Legendary Pope) -- Fiction | Popes -- Legends -- Fiction | Church history -- Middle Ages, 600-1500 -- Fiction | Women -- History -- Middle Ages, 500-1500 -- FictionDDC classification: 813.54 Summary: 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.Item type | Current location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode | Remark |
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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.