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Pope Joan, December 1996
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POPE JOAN
By: Donna Woolfolk Cross

The novel of the only female pope...

Ballantine
December 1996
Featuring: Pope Joan
448 pages
ISBN: 0345416260
EAN: ISBN-13:
Kindle: B002BH5HO4
Trade Size / e-Book
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For a thousand years men have denied her existence--Pope Joan, the woman who disguised herself as a man and rose to rule Christianity for two years. Now this compelling novel animates the legend with a portrait of an unforgettable woman who struggles against restrictions her soul cannot accept.

When her older brother dies in a Viking attack, the brilliant young Joan assumes his identity and enters a Benedictine monastery where, as Brother John Anglicus, she distinguishes herself as a scholar and healer. Eventually drawn to Rome, she soon becomes enmeshed in a dangerous mix of powerful passion and explosive politics that threatens her life even as it elevates her to the highest throne in the Western world.

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