The Confessions of Pope Joan by Gary McAvoy (Vatican Secret Archive Thrillers Book 7)Requirements: .ePUB reader, 820 KB | RetailOverview: In the heart of the English countryside, a discovery is made that threatens to overturn centuries of Church history. When Father Michael Dominic uncovers a cryptic diary leading to a lost 1st century Gospel, he […]
Disowning Slavery: Gradual Emancipation and “Race” in New England, 1780–1860 by Joanne Pope MelishRequirements: .PDF reader, 5 MBOverview: Following the abolition of slavery in New England, white citizens seemed to forget that it had ever existed there. Drawing on a wide array of primary sources―from slaveowners’ diaries to children’s daybooks to racist broadsides―Joanne Pope Melish […]
The Legend of Pope Joan: In Search of the Truth by Peter Stanford,Requirements: .ePUB, .PDF reader, 3 MBOverview: The legend of Pope Joan–an Englishwoman who disguised herself as a man and became pope in the ninth century–has been a source of controversy for a thousand years. Fascinated by her story, but skeptical of its authenticity, […]
Pope Joan by Donna Woolfolk CrossRequirements: .MP3 reader, 532 mbOverview: There are few historical heroines as fascinating and controversial as Pope Joan, a woman whose hunger for knowledge and independent nature led her to pass as a man and ultimately to attain the high seat in Rome. Pope Joan is a spellbinding tale of a […]
The Afterlife of Pope Joan: Deploying the Popess Legend in Early Modern England by Craig M. RusticiRequirements: .PDF reader, 2 mbOverview: Amid the religious tumult of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, English scholars, preachers, and dramatists examined, debated, and refashioned tales concerning Pope Joan, a ninth-century woman who, as legend has it, cross-dressed her way […]