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Originally Posted by Quoth
Joan of Arc wore "male" style armour because women warriors did, if they wore armour and were warriors (not many were by then). Vikings and a thousand years earlier, Celts had women warriors. They didn't wear bikinis.
The English claim that Joan of Arc wore men's clothes was disingenuous. It was a fake trial.
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From what I recall reading around the subject, the main indictment was that she wore men's clothing. However, under canon law it was acceptable to do so as a defence against rape: so a woman traveller or a woman in a male setting was allowed to wear men's clothing while she was in that situation, but she had to return to women's clothing once she left that setting.