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Divinity Manifest in a Female Body

Bulletin for the Study of Religion, 2012
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 1300.
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Christ’s Cosmetic Hydrotherapy: Blemishes, Wrinkles, and Transformational Waters in Ephesians 5:26–27

Biblical Interpretation
This article argues that the washing that removes blemishes and wrinkles in Eph 5:26–27 is intelligible against wider ancient Graeco-Roman and early Christian conceptions of transformational waters.
Isaac T. Soon
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Hagiography of rus' "holy wives" in the Late Middle Ages: feminine discourse

Literarische Studien
The article is dedicated to the investigation of feminine discourse in the literature of the Late Middle Ages. It explores hagiography, which combines elements of classical hagiographic and literary works.
O. Slipushko, Olha Shchelkunova
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MURRAYA KOENIGII LEAVES EXTRACT FABRICATED NANOTEXTILE AS HOLY GRAIL FOR FEMALE HYGIENE

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH
Good feminine hygiene is important for preventing infections and other health issues. Medical literature has not given enough attention to intimate feminine hygiene, which makes education a priority. Inappropriate intimate hygiene can result in problems like urinary and reproductive tract infections.
Bhairavi Bhagat, Jignaben P. Naik
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The Early Abbesses, Nuns and Female Tenants of the Abbey of Holy Trinity, Caen

The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 1997
A major problem for the student of a relatively new discipline or sub-discipline is the construction of a framework within which to operate. In the case of the economic, social and legal position of women in the Middle Ages the only clear thing is that the lines are slowly being redrawn, although more perhaps with respect to the central Middle Ages ...
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From the Tabennisi nunnery to Pussy Riot: female holy fools in Byzantium and Russia

Canadian Slavonic Papers, 2018
In this paper, as the author explores the gendered aspects of the holy fool’s phenomenology, she argues that, despite the presumed egalitarianism and the fact that female holy fools appeared in Byz...
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Same but different: A systematic reassessment of the Hebius khasiensis Boulenger, 1890 (Reptilia: Squamata: Natricidae) species complex from the Indo-Burma biodiversity hotspot supports the revalidation of Natrix gilhodesi Wall, 1925 as a valid species.

Zootaxa
This study provides new insights into the systematics of the natricid species Hebius khasiensis Boulenger sensu lato. Our findings are based on recent collections from northeast India, including the type locality in the Khasi Hills, Meghalaya, and the ...
S. Bohra, T. Nguyen, G. Vogel, H. T. Lalremsanga, L. Biakzuala, Madhurima Das, Holiness Warjri, Goldenstar Thongni, N. Poyarkov, Jayaditya Purkayastha   +9 more
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Female Pilgrimage to the Middle East during Global Transformation, or How Lost Female Pilgrims in the Holy Land Fell in the Sphere of Soviet Interests

ISTORIYA, 2021
The research focuses on establishing and personifying the rather shady and marginal group of “Russian female pilgrims” that decided to stay in the Holy Land in 1910—1920’s and caught the attention of the Soviet Ministry of Foreign Affairs after the formation of the state of Israel.
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Female Architectural Patronage in the Eighteenth Century and the Case of Henrietta Cavendish Holies Harley

Architectural History, 2005
How did the restrictions imposed by eighteenth-century society help and hinder women in their fulfilment of the role of architectural patron? This article will examine the case of Henrietta Cavendish Holies Harley, second Countess of Oxford and Mortimer (1694–1755), and patron of the remarkable remodelling of Welbeck Abbey in Nottinghamshire.
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“I Willingly Speak to You about Her Virtues”:1 Catherine de Saint-Augustin and the Public Role of Female Holiness in Early New France

Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture, 2010
Timothy G. Pearson
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