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The Legend of Pope Joan: In Search of the Truth
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The Legend of Pope Joan. In Search of the Truth. By Peter Stanford. (New York: Henry Holt and Company. 1998. Pp. ix, 207. $26.00.)
Joan refuses to go away. Allegedly, in 855, an English woman who had been educated at Fulda traveled to Athens, acquired a remarkable range of learning, went to Rome, rose high in everyone's estimation, and was elected pope. But he was a she and after two years, five months, and four days her deception was revealed when la papessa unexpectedly gave birth while riding through a Roman street.
This is a legend, nothing more. Despite Stanford's attempt to impugn the ...
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