John the Angelic: A Chronicle of Pope Joan - Couverture souple

Andes, A.P.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0986318329 ISBN 13 : 9780986318320

Editeur : A.P. Andes, 2021

Synopsis

What is history, a faithful accounting of events or a carefully crafted narrative, edited and reshaped by the powerful to manipulate and undermine the powerless? John the Angelic, Volume I of A.P. Andes’ quartet, The Latecoming West, explores one of history’s most egregious omissions, excised from the record with cold precision: the brilliant, willful woman, Pope Joan.

A fearless yet soulful spirit, Joan has survived a vicious Viking raid, her father’s murder, and the loss of their home; educated but homeless, she now faces the perilous existence of a minor unprotected by a man in the brutal world of the ninth century. Craving refuge and a way to nurture her extraordinary curiosity, she adopts the dress and mannerisms of a young man to enter the monastic life, and in the process meets a count who will become her mentor, lover, and closest companion. Though she possesses one of the keenest intellects of her age, Joan faces a spiritual crisis: How can she challenge the strictures of her church while remaining true to the essence of her faith?

The story of Johannes Angelicus, as Joan becomes known, is, like all histories, complicated by the motives of those who survived to share it. As Joan’s erasure from the holy lineage she has briefly become a part of draws near, the quartet’s larger narrative summons other cultural “deviants” spanning from ancient Greece to the Holocaust and beyond. Electrically inventive, this genre-bending novel brings unsung heroes and silenced demons out of the catacombs of collective memory and onto the pages of a new, restored record.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: A.P. Andes
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0986318329
• ISBN 13: 9780986318320
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 232
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