The Seducer's Tongue: Oral and Moral Issues in Medieval Schooltexts (pre-print) (original) (raw)

This article shows the presence of medieval erotodidactic texts in repertories of lectures for schoolchildren, at the same time, or soon after, they read the group of texts that would become known as the 'auctores octo'. Memorization and oral repetition is presented as a usual practice in first school. Particular attention is given to the erotodidactic text 'Facetus Moribus et Vita', and to its 14-century Catalan translation-cum-amplification. A final part considers the moral issue of whether erotodidactic texts encouraged or not boys into raping maidens.