Pope Joan / E. L. Hastings.
By: Hastings, E. L.
Publisher: Wayne, Pennsylvania : Miles Standish Press, c1984Description: 485 p.ISBN: 0440068916.Subject(s): Joan, -- Pope (Legendary character) -- FictionDDC classification: Fic H27p 1984 Summary: Daughter of a Roman nobleman and senator--the mistress of Pope Sergius II, hated rival to Pope John X--a woman named Marozia would barter her body and soul to win the gilded scepter of power. In tenth-century Rome, for the first time in history, a woman dared to defy the men who claimed the House of God--exposing the corruption that had destroyed her family and ruined the man she loved--to seize for herself the papacy of the Roman Catholic Church. This is a remarkable first novel from E.L. Hastings, a book written with extraordinary conviction and power...a revealing portrait of the real woman behind the centuries-old legend of Pope Joan.| Item type | Current location | Home library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Daughter of a Roman nobleman and senator--the mistress of Pope Sergius II, hated rival to Pope John X--a woman named Marozia would barter her body and soul to win the gilded scepter of power.
In tenth-century Rome, for the first time in history, a woman dared to defy the men who claimed the House of God--exposing the corruption that had destroyed her family and ruined the man she loved--to seize for herself the papacy of the Roman Catholic Church.
This is a remarkable first novel from E.L. Hastings, a book written with extraordinary conviction and power...a revealing portrait of the real woman behind the centuries-old legend of Pope Joan.
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