The volume "Santas, poderosas y pecadoras: representación y realidad de las mujeres entre los siglos XVI y XIX" (New York, high school de programs of study Auriseculares 2021, ISBN: 978-1-952399-00-8) has been published. The work has been coordinated by Cristina Tabernero and Jesús M. Usunáriz, professors of the School of Philosophy and Letters of the University of Navarra and researchers of the group of research Siglo de Oro (GRISO). It is issue 79 of the IDEA 's "Batihoja" collection and is part of the results of project of research Discursive Universes and Female Identity: elites and popular culture (1600-1850) (HAR2017-84615-P) of the Ministry of Science and Innovation (MICINN) of the Government of Spain.

"Saints, powerful and sinners: representation and reality of women between the 16th and 19th centuries" gathers. eighteen contributions that address the analysis of the female speech in the centuries of Modernity in the peninsular and American sphere, from disciplines such as Literature, Linguistics, History, Art or Thought.. In its pages, the reader will be able to contemplate a great variety of feminine types that appear described among the imaginary and recreating sentences or verses of dramas, comedies and poems, or reelaborated from historical experiences of real characters. Thus, transgressive women, saints and blessed, queens, scholars, prostitutes, admired, satirized or hated women, real or imaginary, sometimes stereotypes, who live and survive their time. The contributions of these specialists, with the female subject in perspective, stimulate a better understanding of the social reality of past centuries, regardless of anachronisms. 

Cristina Tabernero is full professor of language Spanish. Her research has focused mainly on the history of Spanish and its varieties. In recent years, she has studied the insult of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries from different perspectives and the characterization of the feminine speech in the Modern Age. She is the author, together with Professor Usunáriz, of "Diccionario de injurias de los siglos XVI y XVII" (2019).

Jesús M. Usunáriz is Full Professor of Modern History. His programs of study has focused on the International Office of the Hispanic Monarchy and on the social and cultural history of the 16th-18th centuries. Among other publications, he is the author of "España en Alemania: la Guerra de los Treinta Años en las crónicas y relaciones de sucesos" (2016) or the "Diccionario de injurias de los siglos XVI y XVII" (2019). He is also director of the journal report y Civilización and of the collection Library Services Áurea Digital (BIADIG) of the GRISO.