Introduction 1. “The woman shall not wear that which pertains unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman’s garment.” 2. Transvestite Saints 3. Discussing Masculinities 4. Female Cross-dressers in Chivalric Literature 5. Male Cross-dressers: The Carnivalesque 6. Chevaleresses, Female Warriors, and Other Fantastic Creatures 7. Cross-dressers on Trial 8. Joan of Arc 9. Epilogue
Biography
Marina Montesano is Professor of Medieval History at the University of Messina, Italy, and is fellow of Villa I Tatti – The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance. Her interests lie in the field of cultural history and her recent publications include Classical Culture and Witchcraft in Medieval and Renaissance Italy (2018) and Folklore, Magic, and Witchcraft: Cultural Exchanges from the Twelfth to Eighteenth Century (2021).
