GIOVANNA, PAPESSA. - Esempio tipico di come nasce, si sviluppa e tramonta una leggenda.
Machine translation of the 1948–1954 Italian original. The original text is authoritative.
SUMMARY:
I. Sources and Content
II. Spread and Development of the Legend
III. Origin of the Legend
IV. The Fading of the Legend.
I. SOURCES AND CONTENT
Until the mid-13th century, the legend of Pope Joan is unknown. The various accounts found in chroniclers or writers prior to that period were interpolated subsequently. In the manuscript of the Liber pontificalis, Vat. lat. 3762, from the 12th century, for example, the notice of
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