Divinity Manifest in a Female Body: Guglielma of Milan as the Holy Spirit, Female Deity and Female Leadership in the Later Middle Ages

The article investigates a medieval heretical group, the Guglielmites, who worshipped their founder Guglielma of Milan (d. 1281) as the Holy Spirit incarnate and expected another woman, Maifreda da Pirovano, to become pope, the vicar of the Holy Spirit, at Guglielma's second coming in the year...

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Main Author: Istoft, Britt (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Equinox 2012
In: Bulletin for the study of religion
Year: 2012, Volume: 41, Issue: 2, Pages: 27-35
Further subjects:B the Middle Ages
B female godlanguage
B Heresy
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