The Myth of Pope Joan.
BOUREAU, ALAIN [LYDIA G. COCHRANE - TRANSL.].
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Original publisher's light-green paperback, pictorial frontcover, large 8vo: frontispiece, x, 386pp., 6 other illustrations, list of illustrations, preface, introduction, chronological bibliography of works / fragments of works about pope joan, table of contents, index. Very fine copy. Seller Inventory # 148300
Bibliographic Details
Title: The Myth of Pope Joan.
Publisher: Chicago-London, University of Chicago Press 2001
Publication Date: 2001
Binding: Soft cover
About this title
In the ninth century, a brilliant young woman named Joan disguised herself as a man so that she could follow her lover into the then-exclusively male world of scholarship. She proved so successful that she ascended the Catholic hierarchy in Rome and was eventually elected pope. Her pontificate lasted two years, until she became pregnant and died after giving birth during a public procession from the Vatican.
Or so the legend goes—a legend that was fabricated sometime in the thirteenth century, according to Alain Boureau, and which has persisted in one form or another down to the present day. In this fascinating saga of belief and rhetoric, politics and religion, Boureau investigates the historical and ecclesiastical circumstances under which the myth of Pope Joan was constructed and the different uses to which it was put over the centuries. He shows, for instance, how Catholic clerics justified the exclusion of women from the papacy and the priesthood by employing the myth in misogynist moral tales, only to find the popess they had created turned against them in anti-Catholic propaganda during the Reformation.
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