by Donna Woolfolk Cross · AUFBAU VERLAG · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783746625454
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«Die Päpstin» is the historical novel by Donna Woolfolk Cross, published by Aufbau Verlag in paperback (585 pages, in German).
In ninth-century Europe, Johanna, an intelligent girl kept from learning because of her gender, dresses as a man to study in a monastery. The protagonist reaches Rome, where her rise culminates in the papal throne as John Anglicus, in a tale of faith, ambition and intrigue about women's place in the Middle Ages.
The novel was originally published in English as Pope Joan (1996); this 2009 German edition uses the translation by Wolfgang Neuhaus and carries number 2545 of Aufbau-Taschenbücher.
For readers of historical fiction who enjoy the Middle Ages, Church intrigues and protagonists who defy the role assigned to women.
Donna Woolfolk Cross is an American writer and the author of the novel Pope Joan, about a female Catholic Pope from 853 to 855. She is the daughter of Dorothy Woolfolk, a pioneering woman in the American comic book industry, and of novelist William Woolfolk.
