Karen-Margrethe Simonsen Knihy

Focusing on the intersection of literature and human rights, this study explores how sixteenth- and nineteenth-century texts from the Spanish Empire employ theatrical and multisensory strategies to expose violence against enslaved individuals and advocate for their rights. It highlights the unique Spanish context, particularly the Salamanca School's early human rights discourse. By examining five forms of non-narrative theatricality—allegorical, carnivalesque, tragicomic, melodramatic, and tragic—the book delves into the forensic aesthetics of these literary works.

Focusing on the intersection of literature and human rights, this study examines how texts from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries in the Spanish Empire employ theatrical and multisensorial strategies to highlight the violence against enslaved individuals and advocate for their rights. It emphasizes the unique backdrop of early human rights discourse from the Salamanca School, particularly the contributions of Bartolomé de Las Casas. The analysis delves into five non-narrative theatrical forms: allegorical, carnivalesque, tragicomic, melodramatic, and tragic.

This volume is a Nordic contribution to research on law and humanities. It treats the legal culture of the Nordic countries through intensive analyses of canonical Nordic artworks. Law and justice have always been important issues in Nordic literature, film and theater from the Icelandic sagas through Ludvig Holberg and Henrik Ibsen to Lars Noréns theatre and Lars von Trier's Dogme films of today. This book strives to answer two fundamental questions: Is there a special Nordic justice? And what does the legal and literary/aesthetic culture of the North mean for the concept of law and justice and for the understanding of the interdisciplinary exchange of law and humanities? The concept of law and literature as a research area was originally developed in countries of common law. This book investigates law and humanities from a different legal tradition, and contributes thus both to the discussion of the general and the comparative studies of law and humanities.