Richard  Gilbertson

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Hus or someone in his circle produced a Latin polemic known as the Anatomy of the Antichrist, which explained at painstaking length why the pope was in fact the devil: an ‘abomination of desolation’, the ‘angel of the bottomless pit’, a ‘he-goat’ and a ‘wicked and profane prince’.
Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages
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