The Woman who Became Pope

Questions should be held until the end. All of the questions that interrupted the lecture added nothing. All of them could have be answered with "i'm getting to that, please hold your question and it will be answered in the lecture". Its hilarious that an hour into your lecture your audience, based on their interruptions, are still not aware you're talking about a folktale not a historical event. It kind of speaks to the power of this myth, that people are so insistent on talking it as reality even after an hour of explaining to them it's not.

I actually saw the 1972 Pope Joan movie years&years ago. It was on a late night television movie. I remember being completely absorbed through the entire film. I give it a big thumbs up & definitely going to look for it & watch it again. Interesting & informative lecture......Thank you bringing Pope Joan's story out of the shadows!!

42:30 - This weird modern notion that medieval peasants were slackjawed morons incapable of understanding anything that happened outside their own huts rears its head again. The lecturer briefly can't suppress his incredulity, although he does a good job of recovering and answering politely, as always.

Even when lecturing on absolute fake bunkum, John researches it widely, explains it thoroughly, and makes it extremely interesting and understandable.

Thanks!

I just watched this: QI Series A, Episode 5, 'Advertising' with Stephen Fry, Alan Davies, Gyles Brandreth, Rob Brydon and Rich Hall. Where Gyles mentions this Papal check = searching for information on Pope Joan = lead me here, to have you say it was said by Stephen! = ? Facts need checking somewhere along the line... we don't want people to believe a myth do we? 🤣

"It's not true, but we want it to be." Now THAT'S what's true! :-)

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John does an excellent job on all his lectures
If you read the scriptures, which I do in Greek, Peter says to Jesus: you are the Messiah! Jesus says yes and for that reason I have the keys to the kingdom, not Peter. Office of Pope and his authority is made up

I'd like to know how girls dressed back then, knowing that boy monks worse long dresses and hoods to hide their heir!

I believe that when they stripped pope Formosus of his papal finery, they found he had been wearing a hair shirt , similarly there was a cardinal in Italy who was attacked, post WWII, as a fascist, because he had blessed the Italian troops etc , however after his death, miracles were attributed to his intercession and his body was exhumed and found to be perfectly incorrupt and there are pictures of his relic online .

Jesus is the rock! Hello?

No myth👀

I am surprised that you even have to explain how women were kept in subservient positions to your group. She broke the line Popes and humiliated the church. And duped all those learned men who were supposed to be so highlŷ educated and for such along time.

Women and their bodies are connected to the earth. The anathema is the true Sophia Christ, I guess you could say ANTEchrist, not anti meaning against, but anti meaning before

Fascinating lecture. Kudos to John Hammer!