{"id":2348,"date":"2017-10-16T09:00:52","date_gmt":"2017-10-16T13:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/?p=2348"},"modified":"2017-10-16T08:55:55","modified_gmt":"2017-10-16T12:55:55","slug":"recent-acquisition-defending-pope-joan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/recent-acquisition-defending-pope-joan\/","title":{"rendered":"Recent Acquisition: Defending Pope Joan"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Alan Krieger, Theology and Philosophy Librarian<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The story about a female pope\u2014Pope Joan\u2014circulated widely from the early thirteenth century and was generally accepted. Allegedly, a woman disguised herself as a male in order to attend university with her lover. She quickly ascended through the ecclesiastical hierarchy and was elected pope under the name John. She reigned for two and a half years before her true identity was revealed when she fell to the ground and gave birth.<\/p>\n

Hesburgh Libraries has just acquired an interesting and very rare example of a French Protestant writer refuting another Protestant author’s denial of the Pope Joan legend.<\/p>\n

Pierre Congnard’s Traite contre l’eclaircissement donne par M. Blondel en la question, si une femme a este assise au siege papal de Rome, entre Leon IV et Benoist III<\/em> (Saumur: Ian Ribotteau & Antoine Rousselet, 1655)<\/a> is a Protestant response to a work by the Calvinist pastor, David Blondel (1591-1655). Blondel, similar to many Catholic writers, attempted to dispel the Pope Joan story on the basis of his own scholarly research. Congnard, however, supports the claim that there was indeed a female Pope.<\/p>\n

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There is apparently only one other copy of this title held by a North American institution.<\/p>\n

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