When a Female Pope Meets a Biconfessional Town: Protestantism, Catholicism, and Popular Polemics in the 1630s
The early modern afterlife of Pope Joan has been remarkably little studied, perhaps because its contours have seemed familiar: Joan’s existence was embraced by Protestants for its challenge to the apostolic succession of the papacy and rejected by Catholics for the same reason. This role reversal,...
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| Language: | English |
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Open Journals
2019-06-01
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| Series: | Early Modern Low Countries |
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| Online Access: | https://emlc-journal.org/article/view/7215 |