Pope Joan : a novel / Donna Woolfolk Cross.
By: Cross, Donna Woolfolk.
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BookPublisher: New York : Ballantine Books, 1997Edition: 1st Ballantine Books ed.Description: viii, 422 p. ; 21 cm.ISBN: 0345416260.Subject(s): Papacy -- History -- To 1309 -- Fiction | Middle Ages -- Fiction | Male impersonators -- Fiction | Papacy -- History -- Fiction | Middle Ages -- Fiction | Impostors and imposture -- FictionDDC classification: 813/.54 Summary: When her older brother is killed, Joan, a rebellious ninth-century woman, assumes his identity, enters a monastery and becomes a great Christian scholar, eventually attaining the throne of Pope.
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When her older brother is killed, Joan, a rebellious ninth-century woman, assumes his identity, enters a monastery and becomes a great Christian scholar, eventually attaining the throne of Pope.
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