Señales, Portentos y Demonios. La magia en la literatura y la cultura españolas del Renacimiento ed. by Eva Lara and Alberto Montaner

neither natural nor universal” (28) but, rather, “appears as a universal category because of the universalist claim of [...] Christianity” (33). The inscribed texts and the evidence of the MS are significant, yet, it is individuals who interpret and reinterpret texts, constructing meaning and sense. The hermeneutic circle freights the interpreter’s agency over a text’s facility to encode itself verbatim into imagination. This monograph devoted to fifteenth-century alxamía JudeoIberian writings should stimulate further exploration of the subject area.