Eve and Mary: The Search for Lost Beauty and Sensuality is an exciting voyage of historical and cultural discovery that steps into the stream of familiar legends and myths while encountering surprising events. It evokes and clarifies the stigmatization of sexual pleasure and the vanishing of beauty in the Early Middle Ages in Europe. The first pope could have been a woman. After all, Jesus made no bones about gender issues. And Mary Magdalene was certainly most fitting to be the first bishop of … [Read more...] about FEATURED BOOK: Eve and Mary: The Search for Lost Beauty and Sensuality by Frank Shapiro