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Besides being, as a newspaper columnist, an ex officio Fountain of All
Knowledge, the writer in question is the paper's music critic who also runs
the weekly quiz, which this week was on the papacy. But his statements do
tend to be taken seriously - i.e., quoted - by some people, and if wrong,
should be refuted. Since I am compromised in his eyes by a) being Catholic
and b) having assumed that the Pope Joan canard had long been a dead duck, I
am very grateful to Tom Izbicki and Sean Field for providing me with titles
of works of reliable scholarship. I'll pass them on to him. Many thanks.
BF
Boureau is certainly not utterly Catholic. What's the rest of the context
for the outlandish claim in the Montreal Gazette? Who wrote the piece?
What's his or her particular location on the religious or ideological
spectrum?
Dennis Martin
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medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
O Learned Ones:
Today's newspaper (the Montreal Gazette) carries the remark that "writers
who declare the legend [of Pope Joan] to be utterly without foundation have
tended to be utterly Catholic in their outlook". Does anyone know what the
current opinion of historians is about the basis of the story?
Bernadette Filotas
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