Trans Masculinity in Medieval Christianity Sources/Further Reading

Primary Sources

Constas, Nicolas. “The Life of St. Mary/Marinos: Introduction & Translation (Holy Women of Byzantium, Dumbarton Oaks, 1998),” n.d. https://www.academia.edu/10373905/The_Life_of_St_Mary_Marinos_Introduction_and_Translation_from_Holy_Women_of_Byzantium_Dumbarton_Oaks_1998_

Lewis, Agnes Smith, trans. Select Narratives of Holy Women: Translation: From the Syro-Antiochene or Sinai Palimpsest. Publisher not identified, 1900. https://archive.org/details/selectnarratives00johnuoft/page/n417/mode/2up

Stouck, Mary-Ann. Medieval Saints: A Reader. Vol. 4. Broadview Press, 1999.

Secondary Sources

Betancourt, Roland. “III Transgender Lives.” In Byzantine Intersectionality. Princeton University Press, 2020.

Charmaille, François·e. “Nonbeenary Gender: Bees and Grammar in Monastic Culture circa 800–1070: Nonbeenary Gender.” Postmedieval a Journal of Medieval Cultural Studies (London) 16, no. 4 (2025): 877–99. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41280-025-00404-y.

Davis, Stephen J. "Crossed Texts, Crossed Sex: Intertextuality and Gender in Early Christian Legends of Holy Women Disguised as Men." Journal of Early Christian Studies 10, no. 1 (2002): 1-36. https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/earl.2002.0003.

Hotchkiss, Valerie R. Clothes Make the Man: Female Cross Dressing in Medieval Europe. 1st edition. 1991. The new Middle Ages; v. 1. Routledge, 1996. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203871102.

Karras, Ruth Mazo. “Thomas Aquinas’s Chastity Belt: Clerical Masculinity in Medieval Europe.” In Gender and Christianity in Medieval Europe: New Perspectives, edited by LISA M. BITEL and FELICE LIFSHITZ. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt3fhcn6.6.

Maude, Ilya. 2024. “ ‘Selective historians’: The construction of cisness in Byzantine and Byzantinist texts.” Gender & History 36: 32–51. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.12754

M.W. Bychowski, and M. W. Bychowski. “The Authentic Lives of Transgender Saints: Imago Dei and Imitatio Christi in the Life of St Marinos the Monk.” In Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography, 1st ed., vol. 1, edited by Alicia Spencer-Hall and Blake Gutt. Routledge, 2021. https://doi.org/10.5117/9789462988248_ch10.

Raskolnikov, Masha. “Transgendering Pride.” Postmedieval a Journal of Medieval Cultural Studies (London) 1, no. 1 (2010): 157–64. https://doi.org/10.1057/pmed.2010.15.

Websites (not in any sort of order)

Description of 'untitled, 9th century-10th century. British Library Syriac Manuscript Collection. British Library Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections. GB 59 ADD MS 14649' on the Archives Hub website, [http://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/data/gb59-britishlibrarysyriacmanuscriptcollection/addms14649 ], (date accessed :30/06/2026)

https://www.cartantica.it/pages/collaborazionisantamarina.asp

https://qspirit.net/marinos-marina-monk-transgender/

https://vincenzoguerrisi.wordpress.com/2018/07/17/santa-marina-di-bitinia-patrona-di-polistena/

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