Casuistry and Early Modern Spanish Literature最新文献

{"title":"The Intrusion of an Apocryphal Guzmán as a (Legal, Moral and Literary) ‘Case’ in Mateo Alemán’s Authentic Second Part","authors":"","doi":"10.1163/9789004506824_005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004506824_005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":257977,"journal":{"name":"Casuistry and Early Modern Spanish Literature","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115602095","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Artful Rhetoric: The Case of Lázaro de Tormes","authors":"E. Friedman","doi":"10.1163/9789004506824_004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004506824_004","url":null,"abstract":"The anonymous Lazarillo de Tormes (1554), the first of the archetypal Spanish picaresque narratives, is a fictional autobiography in the form of a defense. A figure known as “Your Grace” has asked the adult L á zaro to explain “the case” ( el caso ), a public scandal. The narrator starts the presentation with his humble birth. The explanation is replete with satire and irony. Its complex rhetorical structure points to the lack of mobility in the hierarchical society of the time and place.","PeriodicalId":257977,"journal":{"name":"Casuistry and Early Modern Spanish Literature","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122364507","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Theological Casuistry and Casuistical Preposterousness: The Fallacious Cases of La pícara Justina","authors":"David Mañero Lozano","doi":"10.1163/9789004506824_006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004506824_006","url":null,"abstract":"The preliminary pages of La pícara Justina offer a parallel between a purported exemplary reading of Justina’s story and court hearings for people accused of crimes, as well as theological views. However, the preposterous circumstances and the arguments used by the female rogue when attempting to exonerate herself, assume such a degree of narrative disproportion and distortion that the discourse moves into parody. Based on these observations, we analyze the function of casuistry within the framework of fictional literature.","PeriodicalId":257977,"journal":{"name":"Casuistry and Early Modern Spanish Literature","volume":"102 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132309929","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Lawyers’ Tales: Legal Casuistry and the Spanish Golden Age Novella (Cristóbal Suárez de Figueroa, Alonso de Castillo Solórzano)","authors":"Suárez de Figueroa","doi":"10.1163/9789004506824_009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004506824_009","url":null,"abstract":"This contribution examines the relationship between casuistry and narrative literature in the Siglo de Oro with particular attention to legal contexts. In this respect, El pasajero (1617) by Crist ó bal Su á rez de Figueroa proves to be an ideal object of research, since the author, as a jurist, displays casuistic thinking, argumentation and procedure. The rather pragmatic and didactic character of this hybrid text is contrasted with novellas from the collection Huerta de Valencia (1629) by Alonso de Castillo Sol ó rzano, whose intradiegetic storytellers are likewise characterized by their academic professions, including a lawyer.","PeriodicalId":257977,"journal":{"name":"Casuistry and Early Modern Spanish Literature","volume":"59 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114666199","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The 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)","authors":"Anita Traninger","doi":"10.1163/9789004506824_007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004506824_007","url":null,"abstract":"Despite being variously referred to as a romance of love and adventure, the Golden Age novela bizantina is hardly limited to narrating amorous exploits. Rather, it tends to treat of displacement and destitution, thereby confronting its characters with existential cases of conscience. This article explores how the first Spanish novel of this kind, Alonso N úñ ez de Reinoso’s Los amores de Clareo y Florisea y los trabajos de la sin ventura Isea (1552) engages its readers in moral reflection.","PeriodicalId":257977,"journal":{"name":"Casuistry and Early Modern Spanish Literature","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114975844","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Casuistry and Early Modern Spanish Literature: A Neglected Relationship","authors":"Marlen Bidwell-Steiner, M. Scham","doi":"10.1163/9789004506824_002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004506824_002","url":null,"abstract":"The title of this volume has an unspectacular, perhaps even ingenuous ring. And yet, it addresses complex relationships that were fertile with the production of cultural meaning. Early modern Spanish narrative encompasses an amazing variety of highly innovative literary forms. Labelling Don Quijote as the first modern novel has become a commonplace. Yet this is not the only original “Spanish” discourse. Although seemingly exclusively embedded in everyday life (and misery) of 16th and 17th century Spanish society, the genre of the picaresque immediately sweeps across Europe. Another case in point is the Spanish comedia as a hybrid dramatic form that transgresses Aristotelian norms for the sake of a changing public taste and need, as Lope de Vega elaborates in his Arte nuevo in 1609. And even well-established genres like the Italian novella become thoroughly refashioned to reemerge in bespoke Spanish clothes. As is to be expected, the attempts to elucidate the extraordinary dynamics of literary and artistic cultures in the Siglo de Oro are myriad. One widely accepted hypothesis argues for the emergence of a specific “modern” subjectivity: a characteristic habitus that permitted reflection upon the tensions that were inherent to a society exposed to the ideologies of the Counter-Reformation, colonialist nation building and the fraught heritage of the three monotheistic cultures (Gumbrecht). This is the period in which casuistry as a religious, legal, medical and literary practice gains momentum. Although its origins are conventionally associated with medieval penitential books and the practice of applying verdicts pronounced by church authorities in judging the severity of sins during confession, casuistry also has deep roots in legal and medical traditions, including Judaic and Islamic law and theology. Under the terms of the printing revolution, changing knowledge cultures spawn a sophisticated mingling of these threefold origins of casuistry. The spread of casuistry in early modern Spain is vast, from the strict sense of resolving penitents’ “cases of conscience” to broader political, economic, legal and scientific issues. Yet, perhaps owing to its image as a sophistical justification of suspect behavior and political expediency – a perception promoted by the Jansenist Pascal’s famous denunciation of Jesuit “laxism” in his Lettres","PeriodicalId":257977,"journal":{"name":"Casuistry and Early Modern Spanish Literature","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126371964","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Opinion, Idolatry, and Indigenous Consciousness: Bartolomé de las Casas’ Approach to Human Sacrifice","authors":"José Cárdenas Bunsen","doi":"10.1163/9789004506824_010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004506824_010","url":null,"abstract":"This article addresses the criteria by which Las Casas conceptualized indigenous beliefs in his Apologética historia sumaria . It maintains that the theological and juridical notion of ‘opinion’ undergirds Las Casas’ conceptualization of religious phenom-ena among native peoples. Las Casas argues that human sacrifice emanates from a search for the true god within the limits of human reason, is protected with all legal considerations granted to formal opinions held in good faith and does not provide grounds to justify colonial intervention.","PeriodicalId":257977,"journal":{"name":"Casuistry and Early Modern Spanish Literature","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122071243","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Justice, Blindfolded: Law and Crime in the Celestina","authors":"Marlen Bidwell-Steiner","doi":"10.1163/9789004506824_003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004506824_003","url":null,"abstract":"La Celestina is a breakthrough in the development of Spanish narratives from educa-tional purposes towards multi-layered literary worlds and thus crucial for the interac-tion between casuistry and imaginative literature. The plot’s casualties are framed by soliloquies referring to legal and ethical questions. On a rhetorical level, law is present in the master trope of blind(folded) justice. Combining a close reading of these soliloquies with contemporaneous casuistical writings and an iconological search for evidences elucidates the intention of this contested masterpiece.","PeriodicalId":257977,"journal":{"name":"Casuistry and Early Modern Spanish Literature","volume":"87 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132917442","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Staging Penance: Scenes of Sacramental Confession in Early Modern Spanish Drama","authors":"Hilaire Kallendorf","doi":"10.1163/9789004506824_011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004506824_011","url":null,"abstract":"Scholars now recognize that the language of casuistry pervades early modern Spanish school dramas, comedias and autos sacramentales , due to the Jesuit education received by a majority of Renaissance Spain’s renowned playwrights. A closer scrutiny of a corpus of 800 digitalized plays from this period – supplemented by plays held in manuscript at Madrid’s Royal Academy of History – reveals an even closer connection between the ritual act of the Catholic Church’s sacrament of confession and the early modern Spanish stage.","PeriodicalId":257977,"journal":{"name":"Casuistry and Early Modern Spanish Literature","volume":"124 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133500544","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Comic Casuistry and Common Sense: Sancho Panza’s Governorship","authors":"M. Scham","doi":"10.1163/9789004506824_008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004506824_008","url":null,"abstract":"Key background to Sancho Panza’s governership of Barataria ( Don Quijote II. 42–53) includes the specula principum tradition, treatises on statecraft (Furi ó Ceriol, Ribadeneira, Castillo de Bobadilla) and other casuistic tratados . Demonstrating the importance of circumstance and narrative economy, of wisdom derived from experience and of properly knowing oneself ( nosce te ipsum ), Sancho embodies many traits of the ideal ruler, even as he improvises in his own inimical manner.","PeriodicalId":257977,"journal":{"name":"Casuistry and Early Modern Spanish Literature","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131533842","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}