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"A man who’s given unto Caesar all that is Caesar’s, but also all that is God’s." Wow. And something that seems like it could have been true of some real medieval clerics, because the Church used to wield hegemonic political power and would attract the ambitious.

The quoted verse isn't from Job but from Isaiah.

It's odd for women not to be able to make altar cloth when embroidering them used to be part of the work of nuns.

"The opposite of pride is love." Interesting. I hadn't thought of it like that before.

No matter what he does in the future, the fact that her father at least thought to ask if Aleys had a vocation immediately after she said she didn't want to marry suggests that he is not a terrible father, or at least didn't start out that way.

I'm not sure if the author plans on discussing this, but St. Clare was a contemporary of St. Francis and established an order for women that took vows of poverty as strict as those of the male Franciscans. Like all nuns at the time (1212), they were required to be enclosed, but the implication that they weren't any different from the other nuns at the time is incorrect.