Cristina Tabernero and Jesús M. Usunáriz, researchers at group of research Siglo de Oro (GRISO) of the University of Navarra, have just published a "Dictionary of insults of the 16th and 17th centuries". Published by Kassel, Edition Reichenberger, in the Collection "Glossaries and Manuals", this "Dictionary" is the result of the analysis of about 1,500 judicial processes on insults of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It includes more than 1,000 terms and expressions, accompanied by the definition, graphic, etymological and grammatical information of 8,200 contexts of use, and more than 1,800 documentary testimonies. The whole constitutes a reflection of what could have been the oral tradition of the speakers of the past and of their cultural values. It is a contribution to the history of the lexicon and the social history of the Spanish Golden Age.

This Issue is part of the results of the project "speech y poder, language y autoridad en el mundo hispánico (siglos XVI-XVII)" (HAR2012-31536), funded by the Ministry of Economics and Competitiveness, and of the graduate "Universos discursivos e identidad femenina: élites y cultura popular (1600-1850)" (HAR2017-84615-P), funded by the Ministry of Economics, Industria y Competitividad del Gobierno de España.

Cristina Tabernero is professor of Spanish language and member of group of research Siglo de Oro (GRISO) at the University of Navarra. Her research has focused mainly on the history of Spanish and its varieties. In recent years she has dealt with the study of the 16th and 17th century insult from different perspectives: semantic and lexical ("Injurias, maldiciones y juramentos", "Léxico injurioso y tipos de speech"), lexicographic ("Linguistic and social consideration in the Tesoro") and pragmatic and sociolinguistic ("Pragmatics of the insult", "Veceras de maldecir e infamadas", "Indicadores sociolingüísticos y pragmáticos del insulto").

Jesús M. Usunáriz is professor of Modern History and member of group of research Siglo de Oro (GRISO) of the University of Navarra. Among other books, he is the author of "España y sus tratados internacionales (1516-1700)" and publisher of works such as "Poderes y autoridades en el Siglo de Oro: realidad y representación", with António Apolinário Lourenço; "Del poder y sus críticos en el mundo ibérico del Siglo de Oro", with Ignacio Arellano and Antonio Feros; or "La autoridad política y el poder de las letras en el Siglo de Oro", with Edward Williamson. His research focuses on the study of social history and cultural changes in Golden Age Spain.