Zitiert nach: Gregory of Tours (539-594): History of the Franks: Books I-X

Exstitit enim in hac synodo quidam ex episcopis qui dicebat mulierem hominem non posse vocitari. sed tamen ab episcopis ratione accepta quievit: eo quod sacer veteris testamenti liber edoceat, quod in principio deo hominem creante ait, "masculum et feminam creavit eos: vocavitque nomen eorum Adam" (Gen. 5.2), quod est 'homo terrenus'; sic utique vocans mulierem ceu virum: utrumque enim hominem dixit. sed et dominus Iesus Christus ob hoc vocitatur filius hominis, quod sit filius virginis, id est mulieris. ad quam cum aquas in vina transferre pararet, ait: "Quid mihi et tibi est, mulier?" (John 2.4) et reliqua. multisque et aliis testimoniis haec causa convicta quievit.

There came forward at this Council a certain bishop who maintained that woman could not be included under the term "man." However, he accepted the reasoning of the other bishops and did not press his case for the holy book of the Old Testament tells us that in the beginning, when God created man, "Male and female he created them and called their name Adam," which means earthly man; even so, he called the woman Eve, yet of both he used the word "man." And our Lord Jesus Christ is called "Son of man"", but is the son of of virgin, who is a woman. [-see article by ]

Gregory of Tours, Historia Francorum 8.20

Ob es bei der Versammlung wirklich, wie behauptet wird, um die Frage ging, ob Frauen eine Seele haben, bzw. wie der angebliche (?) Mythos entstanden ist, diskutiert der Beitrag von Michael Nolan: "The Myth of the Soulless Woman," in: First Things, 72 (April 1997): 13-14