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Pope Joan
(redirected from Popess Joan)

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a game at cards played on a round board with compartments.

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Popess Joan was not always depicted as a harlot fated to dangle from a gibbet in hell--Boccaccio had imagined her as basically virtuous despite her "wicked fraud" (15-17)--but anti-papal reformation discourse seized upon her as an especially powerful tool in its polemic against the Catholic Church.
 
 
 
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