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The Myth of Pope Joan.(Book Review)
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The Myth of Pope Joan. By ALAIN BOUREAU. Trans. by LYDIA G. COCHRANE. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2001. x+386 pp. $60 (pbk $22). ISBN 0-22606744-0 (pbk 0-226-06745-9).
The history of Pope Joan, as it is normally told, recounts how a young woman of Mainz, but of English descent, disguised herself as a man in order to follow her lover in his clerical career. So successful was she that in AD 855 she made it to Pope and enjoyed a two-year pontificate, during which she instituted the wild festivals known as the 'four times'. She was discovered when she unexpectedly gave ...
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