Josephines

The Josephines (

Arnaldists.^[1]

Almost nothing is known about the Josephines.

Flavius Josephus and the freedman Epaphroditus. For Eisler, such ideas were transmitted by the Slavonic Josephus, which he accepted as authentic. He thus traced the western Josephines, whom he placed in Lombardy and Provence, to the Paulicians resettled in Europe in the eighth century.^[3]

The Josephines are sometimes identified with the Josephists (Josephistae) mentioned by a 13th-century German writer. The latter are accused of practising only spiritual marriage and condemning sexual activity, in which case they probably took their name from Saint Joseph, who, on the Catholic view of the perpetual virginity of Mary, did not consummate his marriage. Ilarino da Milano, however, rejected the identification of the two sects as baseless.^[2]

References

^ Hamilton 2004, p. 22.
^ ^a ^b Hamilton 2004, p. 23.
^ Eisler 1931, pp. 165–167.

Bibliography

Eisler, Robert (1931). The Messiah Jesus and John the Baptist: According to Flavius Josephus' Recently Rediscovered 'Capture of Jerusalem' and the Other Jewish and Christian Sources. Dial Press.
Hamilton, Bernard (2004). "Introduction". In Hamilton, Janet (ed.). Hugh Eteriano: Contra Patarenos. Brill. pp. 1–102.
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Lambert, Malcolm (2002). Medieval Heresy: Popular Movements from the Gregorian Reform to the Reformation (3rd ed.). Wiley-Blackwell.

Milano, Ilarino da (1983). Eresie medioevali: Scritti minori. Rimini.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

[FOOTNOTEHamilton200422-1] Hamilton 2004, p. 22.

[FOOTNOTEHamilton200423-2] Hamilton 2004, p. 23.

[FOOTNOTEEisler1931165–167-3] Eisler 1931, pp. 165–167.

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