medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
In the below, for 'alb' read 'habit'.
--JD
> Thanks, Henk. As an explanation of what a later twelfth- or
> thirteenth-century audience might imagine to have happened, that makes
> a good deal of sense. Like you (I think), I was led by the mention of
> the _shoes_ (not in any text that I have seen of the St. Jerome
> version of the trick) into supposing that this detail might have been
> added to get around any objection on the part of a listener that an
> alb would have prevented notice of women's clothing underneath. But
> the _Vita_ doesn't emphasize the shoes in any way. That detail stands
> out now only because it doesn't quite fit with what's known about shoe
> styles of the period (i.e., men's and women's shoes essentially the same).
>
> Best again,
> John Dillon
>
> On Friday, October 23, 2009, at 4:58 am, Henk wrote:
>
> > Or did they take away his choir habit and put a female cotte in its
> place,
> > all thin wool and a gaudy colour. It does not say anything that
> > detailed in
> > the quote in Caxton's, but that would be a possibility. He would
> have
> > stood
> > out then.
> >
> > Henk
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