Pope Joan
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Pope Joan was a woman who purportedly reigned as popess for two years during the Middle Ages. Her story first appeared in chronicles in the 13th century and subsequently spread throughout Europe. The
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
Illustration of Pope Innocent X having his testicles examined, from Roma Triumphans (1645)
An untitled popess on the Rosenwald Sheet of uncut Tarot woodcuts. Early 16th-century. Now in National Gallery in Washington, D.C.
Pope Joan (2009 film)
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Pope Joan is a 2009 epic historical drama film produced by Bernd Eichinger, based on American novelist Donna Woolfolk Cross' novel of the same name about the legendary Pope Joan. Directed by Sönke Wor
Pope Joan
…under the papal name John VIII. The American Donna Woolfolk Cross's 1996 historical romance, Pope Joan, was later produced as a German musical and a 2009 film. Other novels include Wilhelm Smets' Das Mährchen von der Päpstin Johanna auf’s Neue erörtert (1829), Marjorie Bowen's Black Magic (1909), Ludwig Gorm's…
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