A world-wide bestseller, major motion picture and upcoming "Director's Cut" TV mini-series exclusively for the U.S!
" Pope Joan has all the elements one wants in a historical drama–love, sex, violence, duplicity, and long-buried secrets. Cross has written an engaging book." –Los Angeles Times Book Review
For a thousand years her existence has been denied. She is the legend that will not die–Pope Joan, the ninth-century woman who disguised herself as a man and rose to become the only female ever to sit on the throne of St. Peter. Now in this riveting novel, Donna Woolfolk Cross paints a sweeping portrait of an unforgettable heroine who struggles against restrictions her soul cannot accept.
Brilliant and talented, young Joan rebels against medieval social strictures forbidding women to learn. When her brother is brutally killed during a Viking attack, Joan takes up his cloak–and his identity–and enters the monastery of Fulda. As Brother John Anglicus, Joan distinguishes herself as a great scholar and healer. Eventually, she is drawn to Rome, where she becomes enmeshed in a dangerous web of love, passion, and politics. Triumphing over appalling odds, she finally attains the highest office in Christendom–wielding a power greater than any woman before or since. But such power always comes at a price . . .
In this international bestseller, Cross brings the Dark Ages to life in all their brutal splendor and shares the dramatic story of a woman whose strength of vision led her to defy the social restrictions of her day.
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以这样一个惊世骇俗的宏大题材来说，作者显出力所不及。就整部作品来说，缺乏这样一个题材应有的深度和厚重。它只是陈述了一系列故事和事件，没有对人物本身进行更深程度的开发。 对一个挣扎在男性世界的女人来说，重男轻女的父母、周遭人的歧视和虐待、发奋图强、始终不离不...
评分 评分这又是一个“大长今”似的女人。很难有确凿的史实证明她们的确存在过，这并不是重点。我丝毫也不怀疑这个“存在性”。 在人性泯灭的黑暗时代，女人不可以读书写字，不可以接受任何教育，她们被看作没有理性，没有智商的低等生物，不过是男人的附庸和玩偶，是生孩子的工具，随...
评分对她前半生的描述非常棒,吸引我想一口气看完，可到了她成年后的描述就非常的欠缺真实性了，唯一能说的就是，这是上帝的旨意，他接选了她。
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