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Pope Joan is a 1996 novel by American writer Donna Woolfolk Cross.It is based on the medieval legend of Pope Joan.For the most part this novel is the story of a young woman, whose desire to gain more knowledge compels her to dress up as a man, who (due to events beyond her control) eventually rises to become the pope.
The Papess Joanne (Greek: Ἡ Πάπισσα Ἰωάννα, romanized: Hē Pápissa Iōánna) is a 1866 novel by Greek writer Emmanuel Rhoides.Published with the subtitle "medieval study", [a] the novel is an exploration of the European legend of Pope Joan, a woman who allegedly ascended the church hierarchy and reigned as pope in disguise some time in the late 9th century.
Donna Woolfolk Cross. Donna Woolfolk Cross (born 1947) is an American writer and the author of the novel Pope Joan, about a female Catholic Pope from 853 to 855. She is the daughter of Dorothy Woolfolk, a pioneering woman in the American comic book industry, and of novelist William Woolfolk.
As "Conclave" shows, those ballots are sewn together with a needle and thread, and then burned with a chemical to send either black smoke, meaning a stalemate, or white, signifying "habemus papam ...
Illustrated manuscript depicting Pope Joan with the papal tiara. Bibliothèque nationale de France, c. 1560. Depiction of "Pope John VII" in Hartmann Schedel's religious Nuremberg Chronicle, published in 1493. Pope Joan (Ioannes Anglicus, 855–857) is a legend about a woman who purportedly reigned as pope for two years during the Middle Ages. [1]
2009 October - Pope Joan, with Johanna Wokalek in the title role. 2009 November – 2012 , with John Cusack in the lead role. The film has an apocalyptic scene in which Vatican is destroyed.
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Pope Joan is the subject of a medieval legend about a woman who reigned as pope. Pope Joan may also refer to: Pope Joan; Pope Joan, based on the Cross novel; Pope Joan (card game) Pope Joan (horse), a Thoroughbred racehorse; Pope Joan, a 1996 novel by Donna Woolfolk Cross