Casuistry and Early Modern Spanish Literature

Marlen Bidwell-Steiner is a Senior Lecturer of Romance Studies, University of Vienna. She finished her habilitation in 2015 and her Ph.D. in 2007 and holds a grant of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) for Casuistry and Early Modern Spanish Literature (2019-2023). Last monograph: Das Grenzwesen Mensch. Vormoderne Naturphilosophie und Literatur im Dialog mit postmoderner Gendertheorie (de Gruyter).Michael Scham is Associate Professor at the Institute for Language and Literature, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Trondheim). He holds a Ph.D. from Princeton University (1997), and is author of Lector ludens: The Representation of Games and Play in Cervantes (Toronto, UP).

• ContentsCasuistry and Early Modern Spanish LiteratureA Neglected RelationshipMarlen Bidwell-Steiner and Michael SchamJustice, Blindfolded: Law and Crime in the CelestinaMarlen Bidwell-SteinerArtful Rhetoric: The Case of Lázaro de TormesEdward H. FriedmanThe Intrusion of an Apocryphal Guzmán as a (Legal, Moral and Literary) ‘Case’ in Mateo Alemán’s Authentic Second PartDavid Alvarez RoblinTheological Casuistry and Casuistical Preposterousness: The Fallacious Cases of La pícara JustinaDavid Mañero LozanoThe Exploration of Circumstance: Casuistry and the Emergence of the Novela Bizantina in Alonso Núñez de Reinoso’s Historia de los amores de Clareo y Florisea, y de los trabajos de Ysea (1552)Anita TraningerComic Casuistry and Common Sense: Sancho Panza’s GovernorshipMichael SchamThe Lawyers’ Tales. Legal Casuistry and the Spanish Golden Age Novella (Cristóbal Suárez de Figueroa, Alonso de Castillo Solórzano)Mechthild AlbertOpinion, Idolatry, and Indigenous Consciousness: Bartolomé de las Casas’ Approach to Human SacrificeJosé Cárdenas BunsenStaging Penance: Scenes of Sacramental Confession in Early Modern Spanish DramaHilaire KallendorfIndex