The Myth of Pope Joan

Boureau/Myth

Contents
Part I The Sex of the Popes: A Roman Story
1 The Pontificals
2 The History of a Chair
3 The Popes between Two Stools

Part II Joan Militant
4 Joan the Catholic: Thirteenth-Fifteenth Centuries
5 The Popess and Her Sisters

Part III Death and Transfiguration of the Popess
6 Joan at the Stake: Fifteenth-Seventeenth Centuries
7 The Popess in Litearture

Epilogues
8 First Epilogue: Historiography of the Popess
9 Second Epilogue: Joan's Body