The autos to the birth of Christ have generally received less attention than those known as their ¿older brothers¿: the autos sacramentales. As a contribution to fill this gap, this article will briefly present the work Nochebuena. Autos al nacimiento del Hijo de Dios con sus loas, villancicos, bailes y sainetes para cantar al purpose, composed by Cosme Gómez de Tejada y de los Reyes in the early seventeenth century, and will also analyse two of the four autos that comprise it. All this will make it possible to establish that the author, a native of Toledo, inserted his creations in the secular Christmas and pastoral theatrical tradition, but gave special and particular importance to the allegorical characters and to the development on stage of various games, riddles and enigmas with which he pursued the double purpose characteristic of the Golden Age theatre: docere and delectare.

The golden playwrights regularly resort in their autos sacramentales to historical-political or mythological events that intermingle with allegorical elements. In this type of theatrical pieces, there are very varied characters, such as the queen, who is assigned very specific functions. In this article, it is discovered -through the analysis of works by Calderon, Lope or Mira, among others- which are the recurring prototypes of queen, what significant features they present and what role they usually play in this particular and complex universe of doctrinal, sacramental and dynastic exaltation.

The objective of this article is to analyse the potential of ComunicARTE, an innovative Spanish Language teaching/learning program that uses project-based learning to develop dialogic spaces which promote the communicative competence of Spanish students, together with social, emotional and motivational outcomes. Two schools have been observed with this in mind: an experimental one using this program and a control one. This is a longitudinal study with pre-and post-test data which analyses 170 children at the beginning of their fifth year and the end of their sixth year in primary school. Quantitative tests have been used to assess their communicative competence and motivational orientation in the classroom. The results obtained are discussed.

Edition at partnership with Miguel Zugasti

The fifteen papers collected in the present volume constitute the conference proceedings of the IV International congress "Jóvenes Investigadores Siglo de Oro" (JISO 2014), which was held on 28 and 29 July 2014, in Olite and Pamplona (Navarra), organised by the group de research Siglo de Oro of the University of Navarra. The congress was structured around seven sessions: three devoted to "Theatre", one to "Prose", one to "Poetry, Rhetoric and Lexicon", another with the topic "Literature, power and justice" and one more on "Painting", all of which are now represented in the publication of the results. approach As was the case in previous years' calls for papers, there are three main features that should be highlighted in congress JISO 2014: the international character of the participants; the interdisciplinary nature of meeting, which addressed a variety of topics related to literature, rhetoric, linguistics, history, law, art, religiosity, culture and society, etc.And, of course, the high quality of the papers presented, whose authors are claiming - some of them already have - the venia docendi, i.e. permission to teach and transmit to others their knowledge in the subjects that constitute their respective specialities.

This volume brings together some thirty contributions that were presented at the III International congress "Jóvenes Investigadores Siglo de Oro" (JISO 2013) which, organised by the group de research Siglo de Oro (GRISO) of the University of Navarra, took place in Pamplona on 31 July and 1 August 2013. This select handful of works on a variety of subjects, contributed by young critics from the most disparate backgrounds, allow us to take a closer look at the directions in which their new work projects are heading in the field of the Golden Age, which shows that the Philology and other related disciplines are alive and have continuity over time. If the conference proceedings of the two previous congresses, JISO 2011 and JISO 2012, were presented under the labels of Scripta manent and Festina lente, respectively, on this occasion they are based on one of the lessons that Horace gives his friend Lolius from a dialogue on the return of Ulysses from Troy: "Dimidium facti, qui coepit, habet: sapere aude, / incipe" (Epistles, II). Quite rightly, this 'dare to know' (or 'dare to think', as it is also translated) is an apt motto for the university teaching and, in general, for the approach to all forms of knowledge. Perhaps it is even more apt for those who are in the early stages of their journey along the paths of literary criticism.

El arte de hablar callando" is an ingenious artefact that brings together painting and literature, speech and information, sharp commentary and discreet reflections. It is a museum and an encyclopaedia: the reader can learn and delight in the paintings of Velázquez, Rubens, el Greco, Murillo, Coello, Titian, Watteau, Goya, de Vos, Dürer, which traverse the territories of exalted beauty and brutal caricature or the violent scene... accompanied by literary commentaries and quotations.

If the conference proceedings of the first congress, JISO 2011, were presented under the label Scripta manent, to show the desire for permanence in writing of the research presented orally, the current ones come out under Festina lente ("Hurry slowly"). The motto of this volume is an oxymoron that Suetonius (Parallel Lives) attributes to Augustus and which may well be valid as committee for any young man researcher: `work calmly so that the result will be good¿, or, in another sense, `take advantage of your initiative and your spirits but, be careful, do not be too hasty¿. We believe that there are few better mottos than this when it comes to describing a body of work by young scholars, some of whom are starting their careers in the world of academia, some more than others. Finally, it is worth remembering that "Festina lente" was also the motto of Aldo Manuzio, whose trademark was an intertwined anchor and dolphin. Several of the contributions focus on the dramaturgy of the Golden Age; and, thus, we can find here reflections on the figure of the gracioso, the reflection of the valido in Tirso de Molina's plays or the variety of conversational discursive markers in Lopesque plays. But, given the multidisciplinarity of this meeting, one can also enjoy reading programs of study which analyses, for example, the influence of Italian architecture on the Peninsula or which sheds light on the development of mercantile calculation in the fifteenth century.

The priest and poet Cosme Gómez de Tejada y de los Reyes (Toledo, 1593 - Talavera, 1648) reflects in his work Nochebuena. Autos al nacimiento del Hijo de Dios con sus loas, villancicos, bailes y sainetes para cantar al purpose, written at the beginning of the 17th century, his extensive knowledge of the Bible and tradition. In the introductory section Lo histórico deste gran misterio, which will be the main subject of study in the following pages, he describes the story of the incarnation of Christ. To this end, he draws on the canonical Gospels of Matthew and Luke, which he complements with the apocryphal Gospels as well as with the reflections and writings of the holy fathers and various important figures of the Church.