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This article focuses on the pamphlet printed by Juan de Mongastón in 1611 about Logroño's Auto de Fe (1610) and its special emphasis on the witches judged on 7 and 8 November. This paper maintains that this pamphlet, which is of undeniable historical interest, must be approached from a literary perspective, since, as will be shown, it is actually a literary text, although it has never been viewed from that perspective. To justify these claims we will rely on the connection established by Francisco Rico and José Miguel Barandiarán, and the current narrative interpretation of witchcraft (Dolan, Rowland, Rowlands, Gibson, Clark, Rushton, Gaskill, Purkiss and Gentilcore) as well as contributions by Caro Baroja, Henningsen, Dueso and Azurmendi about the “Zugarramurdi's Witches". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper consists of a study on José Ángel Valente's poetry througout its conceptual shapes. These shapes will be understood as symbolic projections which work as a bridge between a material poetic order and a spiritual one. First of all, we will study some abstract concepts like the point, the line, or the circle, and then we will observe more tangible aspects like the value and the role of colour in Valente's universe. Other aspects that we will study are, for example, the amplitude of the poetic space, and the direction traversed by the different symbolic elements of the poetry. All these factors allow us broadening the understanding of José Ángel Valente's poetry. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyses the complex figure of Daniel, whom Jewish and Catholic traditions have interpreted in different ways, either as a wise man or as a prophet. The disagreement on the portrayal of Daniel -the book and the hero- is reflected in the differential position it occupies in either tradition, due among other reasons to its nature of rereading and compendium of the Scripture. In Daniel, the voice of the most important biblical characters (Joseph, Moses, David, Solomon, Esther) appears to be heard in harmony with his. Given this polyphonic dimension, I propose an alternative to the often restrictive classification of Daniel to just one category: not only is he a prophet, wise man, and apocalyptic figure, but also someone who joins the ranks of the patriarchs, judges, priests, and kings of the biblical tradition. This more complete vision of Daniel would enrich the understanding of its theology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]