[Sca-cooks] persona play (was FYI)

[Stefan li Rous]

'Lainie replied to me with:
>>For various reasons (including why would you want to go down in status
>>rather then up), gender changing in the Middle Ages seems to have been women
>>dressing as men, rather than the opposite direction.
>
> Yes. *UNLESS* you are in a fabliaux or other work of period fiction. Then
> all bets are off.
So, what is a "fabliaux"?

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