The legendary (and probably fictional) medieval Pope Joan was said to have revealed both her se
The legendary (and probably fictional) medieval Pope Joan was said to have revealed both her sex and her pregnancy by giving birth during a procession. Protestant polemicist Alexander Cooke (1564-1632) first published Pope Joane, A dialogue betweene a Protestant and a Papist, manifestly proving that a woman called Joane was Pope of Rome in London in 1610, nine years before the appearance of this Latin translation.Alexander Cooke (1564-1632), Johanna papissa toti orbi manifestata (Oppenheimii : Typis H. Galleri, Sumptibus Hulfianis, 1619). -- source link
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