Guglielma E Maifreda. Storia Di Un'eresia Femminista by Luisa Muraro

Storia di un'eresia femminista

A historical-philosophical reconstruction of a 13th-century Milanese religious movement that revered a holy woman as the incarnation of the Spirit and empowered her female disciple to perform priestly roles, only to be crushed by the Inquisition. Through close reading of trial records and urban networks, it illuminates how women crafted liturgy, authority, and symbolic language outside sanctioned structures, and interprets this “feminist heresy” as a resource for thinking female freedom, authority, and desire in religion and politics.