Estratégicas visiones de la erótica medieval en tres cancioneros decimonónicos

Abstract

The recovery of the Middle Ages in the 19th century includes the erotic literature, although critics use to prefer not to see it. The erotic poetry is assembled in different cancioneros: the reprint of the Cancionero de obras provocantes a risa, the homonymous cancionero by Lustonó and, already in the 20th century but a clear heir of the past century, the Cancionero de amor y de risa. Inside them the medieval erotica appears along with other poetical veins, and in the last two cancioneros suffers an obvious selection. The publication of these three cancioneros does not try, as they say, to recover the medieval «treasures», but a complex marketing thanks to different strategies, and, at the same time, to take part in ideological confrontations, specially with the Catholic Church and the more conservatives.