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#medievalmonday Some female saints passed as men.

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Clothes Make the Man by Valerie Hotchkiss: goodreads.com/book/show/549083.Clothes_Make_the_Man?ac=1&from_search=true

Oxford University Press blog post on Joan of Arc's heresy: blog.oup.com/2016/05/joan-of-arc-heresy

The Official Account of the Trial of Joan of Arc: https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/basis/joanofarc-trial.asp

Augustine in Confessions IX.8 describes his mother Monica as, "woman in outward form but endowed with virile faith."

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