Friday, August 28, 2009
Guest Author Blythe Gifford on Cross Dressing in the Middle Ages
http://historyundressed.blogspot.com/2009/08/guest-author-blythe-gifford-on-cross.htmlPlease join me in welcoming guest author, Blythe Gifford! Today she is here to tantalize us with her article, Cross Dressing in the Middle Ages.
Joan of Arc may be the most famous cross dresser of the Middle Ages, but as I researched my September release from Harlequin Historical, I discovered she was hardly the only one.
I took heart from that when I wrote IN The MASTER'S BED. In it, my medieval heroine runs away from home disguised as a man in order to study at the University. At that time, women were not even allowed into the living quarters to do laundry, let alone into the classrooms to take courses. My heroine ends up living in the 14th century equivalent of a fraternity house, where she manages to maintain her secret for longer than you might expect.
