@inbook{10.7722/j.ctt163tc5f.8,
 ISBN = {9781843832539},
 URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7722/j.ctt163tc5f.8},
 abstract = {During his interrogations in May 1558, the Marian martyr Roger Holland twice referred to the ‘fact’ that a woman had once reigned as pope in order to rebut his interrogators. Asked where the protestant Church was before Luther, Holland contemptuously answered ‘Our Church is not from Pope Nicholas or Pope Joane, but our Church is from the begynnyng, even from the time that God sayd unto Adam that the seede of the woman should breake the serpentes hed.’¹ The fact that Holland, an apprentice draper of London, was familiar with the story indicates how pervasively it had spread since its},
 author = {THOMAS S. FREEMAN},
 booktitle = {Religious Politics in Post-Reformation England},
 edition = {NED - New edition},
 pages = {60--79},
 publisher = {Boydell and Brewer},
 title = {Joan of Contention: The Myth of the Female Pope in Early Modern England},
 year = {2006}
}