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, w...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jan Machielsen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Journals 2019-06-01
Series:Early Modern Low Countries
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Online Access:http://www.emlc-journal.org/articles/10.18352/emlc.88/