On Fri, 23 Apr 1999 14:12:18 +0100, Madeleine Gray wrote:
>An over-enthusiastic spring-clean has led me to delete the reference to a
>female pilgrim who was disguised as a boy, entered a Cistercian monastery
>and was not discovered to be a woman until her death. Could some kind list
>member reinstate it for me - and does anyone know of other examples of
>cross-dressing saints? (Men dressing as women would be particularly
>interesting!) This is partly a query from m'learned colleague Miranda
>Aldhouse-Green who is doing something on cross-dressing deities and was
>intrigued to hear of more modern Christian parallels.
>
>Maddy Gray
>
Dear Maddy Gray,
are you looking for Hildegund von Schoenau (+ 1188)? A good book about Hildegund with examples of other
cross-dressing women is:
Andrea Liebers, "Eine Frau war dieser Mann". Die Geschichte der Hildegund von Schoenau, Zuerich, 1989
Katrinette Bodarwe
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