Cross-dressing in the Middle Ages

By encompassing the hagiographies of the first centuries, the most famous case of Joan of Arc, numerous chivalrous novels, and the overlooked accounts of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, this is the first study to consider cross-dressing for the entire medieval age.

Cross-dressing is a thought-provoking practice in a world that, in theory, adheres to neat distinctions of the functions and at...