{"id":67,"date":"2007-08-15T21:21:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-16T04:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=67"},"modified":"2007-08-15T21:21:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-16T04:21:00","slug":"thursday-book-club-pope-joan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/thursday-book-club-pope-joan\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday Book Club: Pope Joan"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5099149090761151474\"<\/a>It wasn’t my intention to recommend books that I haven’t read myself but in honor of one of my newest jewelry designs, I’ll do it. As I said in this post<\/a>, according to legend, Pope Joan disguised herself as a man and led the Church for a brief time in the 850s. I did read the historical novel Pope Joan<\/a> by Donna Cross, which starkly illustrates how brutal life was for a woman in the Dark Ages (especially chilling since it is no different in some societies today). I haven’t read a non-fiction book yet, but I’ll probably get The Myth of Pope Joan<\/a>, which dismisses the idea that Joan was real but explores what purposes the myth of Joan might have served. I’m intrigued by a comic, fictional take<\/a> on the female pope, and I will definitely get this book on myths of the Middle Ages<\/a>. Finally, if you need something to hang above your living room couch, a poster print of Pope Joan Is Condemned to the Jaws of Hell for Fornication<\/a> will certainly be a conversation piece as well as a deterrent for house guests who tend to overstay their welcome. <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It wasn’t my intention to recommend books that I haven’t read myself but in honor of one of my newest jewelry designs, I’ll do it. As I said in this post, according to legend, Pope Joan disguised herself as a man and led the Church for a brief time in the 850s. I did read…<\/p>\n

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