“First, a quick reference. Before the invention of printing, no one thought about editing texts. Ancient literature was created without the participation of editors, no matter how bitter it is to admit it. The same goes for medieval literature. A hired copyist would get a lot of money for the gag. True, at the oral stages it was “tested” by retellers-performers, but when it acquired a written form, it’s naughty. (“Editing” history by a chronicler monk is a separate matter from the field of PR.)…”