THE NEW MIDDLE AGES BONNIE WHEELER, Series Editor The New Middle Ages is a series dedicated to transdisciplinary studies of medieval cultures, with particular emphasis on recuperating women's history and on feminist and gender analyses. This peer-reviewed series includes both scholarly monographs and essay collections. PUBLISHED BY PALGRAV E: Women in the Medieval Islamic World: Power, Chaucer's Pardoner and Gender Theory: Bodies Patronage, and Piety of Discourse edited by Gavin R. G. Hambly by Robert S. Sturges The Ethics of Nature in the Middle Ages: On Crossing the Bridge: Comparative Essays on Boccaccio's Poetaphysics Medieval European and Heian Japanese Women by Gregory B. Stone Writers edited by Barbara Stevenson and Presence and Presentation: Women in the Cynthia Ho Chinese Literati Tradition by Sherry J. 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First published in 2008 by PALGRAVE MACMILLANTM 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010 and Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, England RG21 6XS Companies and representatives throughout the world. PALGRAVE MACMILLAN is the global academic imprint of the Palgrave Macmillan division of St. Martin's Press, LLC and of Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. Macmillan® is a registered trademark in the United States, United Kingdom and other countries. Palgrave is a registered trademark in the European Union and other countries. ISBN 978-1-349-73814-4 ISBN 978-1-137-04058-9 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-137-04058-9 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Haywood, Louise M. Sex, scandal, and sermon in fourteenth-century Spain: Juan Ruiz's Libro de Buen Arnor / by Louise M. Haywood. p. cm.-(The new middle ages} Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Ruiz, Juan, fl. 1343. Libro de buen amor. 2. Ruiz, Juan, fl. 1343-Humor. 3. Body, Human, in literature. 4. Sex in literature. I. Title. II. New Middle Ages (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm)) PQ6430.A 1L 534 2008 861 '.1-dc22 2007031627 A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Design by Newgen Imaging Systems (P) Ltd., Chennai, India. First edition: April 2008 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Tranferred To Digital Printing 2011 To Jon and Jake E as! como el nino faze cosa de que todos nen, as! el amador, s:iego del desordenado fuego del querer, as! ha e pone en obra cosa de que todos nen e escarness:en [And thus like the child who does things that make everyone laugh, so also the lover, blinded by the disordered fire of love, does things and undertakes acts at which everyone laughs and mocks] Juan de Mena, Tratado de arnor, p. 379 CONTENTS Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 1 Humor and the Humors 15 2 The Gaze and the Grotesque 49 3 The Stand-Up Archpriest 97 Conclusion: Sex, Scandal, and Sermon 143 Notes 153 Works Cited 177 Index of Stanzas 193 Subject Index 197