TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cross,Donna Woolfolk
TI  - Pope Joan
SN  - 9780345416261 (pbk.)
PY  - 1996///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Ballantine Books
KW  - Joan,
KW  - Church history
KW  - Middle Ages, 600-1500
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Women
KW  - History
KW  - Middle Ages, 500-1500
KW  - Popes
KW  - Legends
KW  - Historical fiction
N1  - Includes "reading group discussion guide."
N2  - "For a thousand years her existence has been denied - Pope Joan, the woman who disguised herself as a man and rose to rule Christianity. Now this compelling novel animates 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 a Brother John Anglicus, she distinguishes herself as a scholar and healer. Eventually drawn to Rome, she 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." (Book Cover)
UR  - https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/33813/pope-joan-by-donna-woolfolk-cross/9780307452368/
UR  - https://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/item/show/751021026
ER  -