According to legend, around 1100, a woman disguised herself as a man and was unanimously elected Pope. The ruse lasted until she gave birth while riding her horse through the streets of Rome. The story isn't true, but how the story came to be, and why it persisted, becomes its own history of Christianity in Europe and the power of propoganda.
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The Nun of Monza, Part 2
The Nun of Monza, Part 1
Lucretia as a Symbol
A Grand Duchess Above the Barber Shop
The Daring Prison Break of the Emperor in Exile
The Dinner Party at the End of the Iranian Monarchy
Odoacer and Theodoric, the Barbarian Kings of the Roman Empire
Napoleon's Coup Within a Coup
How Ada Lovelace Constructed Her Wings
The Plot to Undo Mary Eleanor Bowes, Part 2
The Plot to Undo Mary Eleanor Bowes, Part 1
The Sheika Kept Prisoner (with Heidi Blake)
Introducing: History on Trial
The Venetian Doge Condemned in Memory
Introducing: Very Special Episodes
Pompey and the Prince
The Contradictions and Controversies of Marc de Montifaud
John Dee's Language of the Angels
"Eat Him If You Like"
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