The myth of Pope Joan /

The myth of Pope Joan /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Boureau, Alain.
Uniform title:	Papesse Jeanne. English
Imprint:	Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2001.
Description:	x, 385 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Joan, -- Pope (Legendary character) Joan, -- Pope (Legendary character) Popes -- Legends. Women in Christianity -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500. Church history -- Middle Ages, 600-1500. Church history -- Middle Ages. Popes. Women in Christianity -- Middle Ages. History. Legends.
Format:	Print Book
Local Note:	University of Chicago Library's copy 5 contains laid in a review of the book from Publishers Weekly and correspondence from University of Chicago Press to the translator
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4436663

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ISBN:	0226067440 9780226067445 0226067459 9780226067452
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-332) and index.
Other form:	Online version: Boureau, Alain. Papesse Jeanne. English. Myth of Pope Joan. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2001

Table of Contents:

Boureau/Myth
Part I. The Sex of the Popes: A Roman Story
1. The Pontificals
2. The History of a Chair
3. The Popes between Two Stools
Part II. Joan Militant
4. Joan the Catholic: Thirteenth-Fifteenth Centuries
5. The Popess and Her Sisters
Part III. Death and Transfiguration of the Popess
6. Joan at the Stake: Fifteenth-Seventeenth Centuries
7. The Popess in Litearture
Epilogues
8. First Epilogue: Historiography of the Popess
9. Second Epilogue: Joan's Body