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More than two decades ago, Keith Whinnom listed as one of his ‘three forms of distortion’ in medieval Spanish literary historiography the failure of critics to come to terms with the large body of obscene literature written in late-medieval Spain: The critics who have had something to say about the tradition of obscenity in medieval literature tend to throw in the phrase ‘the reverse of the medal’; it suggests that there are two rigidly separate kinds of writing, and that the historian can, without prejudicial consequences, ignore the matter which disturbs and embarrasses him. The traditions, I believe, are more integrated than this image suggests, and the ignoring of the obscene produces consequential distortions.1 It is safe to say, I believe, that the distortion Whinnom spoke of still exists. Although today's critics are, perhaps, more willing to deal with the obscene in medieval Castilian literature than were those of twenty years ago, the tendency to treat this material as distinct from, not in commu...
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