In the French city of Poitiers during the sixth century, two nuns led a violent revolt against their own abbess. Brought to trial, there is one particular star witness who is mentioned almost incidentally: a man who dresses like a nun.
Sources:
Gregory of Tours. History of the Franks, trans. Lewis Thorpe (New York: Penguin Books, 1976).
Guy Halsall, \"Material Culture, Sex, Gender, Sexuality And Transgression In Sixth-Century Gaul\" in Halsall, Cemeteries and Society in Merovingian Gaul (Leiden: Brill, 2010), 323-355.
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