Maravillas Aguiar
is a Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at the University of La Laguna (Spain). She studies medieval Arabic Science and Technology, focusing on the situations of scientific and intellectual continuity in seemingly discontinuous societies and periods from the fourteenth to seventeenth centuries through the study of texts produced in a variety of languages. She was awarded with the Al-Babtain International Research Award in 2014 and the Women’s Day Award (March 8) (University of La Laguna) in 2015. Recent main publications include: “Los primeros instrumentos de navegación que viajaron a América: un estudio del Quatri partitu o Espejo de navegantes de Alonso de Chaves”, Mélanges de la Casa de Velázquez, 49/1 (2019): 223–244; “Las tablas de calendario en el manuscrito árabe medieval: La tabla de códigos (ʿalāmāt) de la Risāla kāfiyat al-sayb fī-l-ʿamal bi-l-ğayb de ʿIzz al-Dīn b. Masʿūd (795/1392)”, Revista Chilena de Estudios Medievales 22 (2022): 8–15; and “Al-ğuzur al-ḫālidāt al-musammāt al-ʾān bi-qanāriya (Las Islas eternas conocidas ahora como Qanāriya): La mención a Canarias de Aḥmad ibn Qāsim al-Ḥağarī (Hornachos, ca. 1570–Túnez, después de 1642)”, Anuario de Estudios Atlánticos 68 (2022): 1–15 (with K. R. Wittmann).
Iñaki Bazán Díaz
is a Professor of Medieval History at the University of the Basque Country / Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea (Spain). His research focuses on the study of the cultural history of medieval Spain, especially crime, religious dissidence and mechanisms of social control. He directs the Crime History Center of Durango (Biscay) and its journal Clio & Crimen. His publications include Delincuencia y criminalidad en el País Vasco en la transición de la Edad Media a la Moderna (Vitoria – Gasteiz, 1995); Los herejes de Durango y la búsqueda de la Edad del Espíritu Santo en el siglo xv (Durango, 2007); “El verdugo y el cuerpo suplicado de los reos en La Corona de Castilla (siglos xiii–xvi)” in Corps en peines. Manipulations et usages des corps das la pratique pénale depuis le Moyen Âge (Paris, 2019), pp. 25–43; ”La construcción de un sistema procesal privilegiado y garantista en el Señorío de Vizcaya (1342–1526)”in Prácticas estatales y derecho en las sociedades premodernas (Los Polvorines 2022), pp. 145–184; and “La violencia interpersonal a finales de la Edad Media. El asesinato de Nicolás abad de Arrieta”, Anales de la Universidad de Alicante. Historia Medieval, 24 (2023): 13–42.
was a Professor of the History of Medieval Philosophy at the University of Pavia (Italy). Her studies mainly concern the history of medieval ethical thought, in particular systems and behavioural models, reflection on sin and law in moral theology, the history of the passions, theories and the history of preaching. She is co-author, together with Silvana Vecchio, of: I peccati della lingua. Disciplina ed etica della parola nella cultura medievale (Rome 1987; Paris 1991); I sette vizi capitali. Storia dei peccati nel Medioevo (Turin 2000; translations: Paris 2003, Budapest 2011); and Passioni dell’anima. Teorie e usi degli affetti nella cultura medievale (Florence 2015).
Anna Caiozzo
is a Professor of Medieval Studies at the University of Orléans (France). She is a specialist in visual studies of medieval Oriental manuscripts (Arabic and Persian). Her field focuses on imagination in astronomical, astrological and cosmographic representations; she also studies the representation of medieval Islamic society and its environment (landscapes in particular). The other part of his work deals with the staging of political powers (twelfth–fifteenth centuries). She was awarded by the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres with the Prix Bordin, 2019. Among her publications it must be underlined Le roi glorieux, les imaginaires de la royauté dans les corpus du Shāh nāma de Firdawsī aux époques timouride et turkmène (Paris, 2018).
Riccado Cristiani
is a Medievalist by training and a freelance scholar, editor, and translator. In addition to several articles on medieval monasticism, he has recently co-authored—with Barbara H. Rosenwein—What Is the History of Emotions? (Cambridge, Eng. 2017) and co-edited Monastic Emotions (Pakistan Journal of Historical Studies 5/1–2 (2021).
Vincent Debiais
is a Researcher in Medieval History at the École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris, France). He works mostly on Western medieval visual and written culture both in an anthropological and theoretical perspective. He has published on medieval inscriptions and images, and more recently he has conducted extensive research on the notion of “abstraction” during the Middle Ages. He has published, among others, La croisée des signes. Écriture et image (800–1200) (Paris, 2017) and Le silence dans l’art. Théologie et liturgie du silence dans les images médiévales (Paris, 2019).
is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Institute of Humanism and Society, San Jorge University (Saragossa, Spain). One of his main research areas is the ethical significance of friendship and community in ancient and medieval Europe. Among his recent publications are: “’Philia’ and ‘Agape’: Ancient Greek Ethics of Friendship and Christian Theology of Love”, in Love and Friendship Across Cultures (Berlin, 2021), pp. 55–65; “Friendship and Neighbourship among Jewish Women and Judeoconverts in the 15th Century Crown of Aragon”, in Filosofía, método y otros prismas. (Madrid, 2022), pp. 825–838; and “Rationality, virtue and practical wisdom in Aristotle’s ‘Nicomachean Ethics’”, Topoi, Special Issue (2024).
Eduard Juncosa
was an Assistant Professor of Medieval History at the Complutense University of Madrid (Spain). He is ba with Honours in History by the University of Barcelona (2003), ba with Honours in Political Science and Public Administration by the Complutense University of Madrid (2008) and Doctor in Medieval History by the same University (2014). He is working on the field of political though and the expressions of power, especially in the Catalan late-medieval society. His main book is Estructura y dinámicas de poder en el señorío de Tarragona. Creación y evolución de un dominio compartido (ca. 1118–1462) (Barcelona, 2015, Madrid, 2019).
Andrea Knox
is an Assistant Professor of Early Modern History and Women’s History at the University of Northumbria at Newcastle upon Tyne (United Kingdom). Her interests are female criminality and subversion, Irish Dominican mission in Spain and the late medieval and early modern medical humanities. She is currently researching late-medieval female surgeons in the Crown of Aragon and also unlicensed female apothecaries in early modern England. Her research is published in journals such as the Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, Criminal Justice History, Immigrants and Minorities and Quidditas: the Journal of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association, and it must be underlined her book Irish Women on the Move: Migration and Mission in Spain, 1499–1700’ (Oxford – Bern, 2020).
William Marx
is a Reader Emeritus in Medieval Literature at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David (Lampeter, United Kingdom). His research is in the fields of medieval vernacular and Latin literature and theology, manuscript studies,
Mauricio Molina
is the director and Professor of the Medieval Music Besalú-University of Lleida “Specialist Program in Medieval Music Research and Performance,” (Besalú, Spain) and dean and faculty member of the department of Art and History of the Institute for American Universities /American College of the Mediterranean (Barcelona, Spain). His main academic interests are the medieval monophonic song, musical instruments of the Early and High Middle Ages and the reconstruction of performance practices. He is also a member of the Consolidated Medieval Studies Research Group of the University of Lleida, and music director and performer of the medieval music ensembles Magister Petrus (Spain) and Na rota do peregrino (Portugal). His publications include the award-winning Frame Drums in the Medieval Iberian Peninsula (Kassel, 2010) and La canción monódica secular y religiosa en el Occidente medieval. 850–1200 (Galapagar, 2025).
Miguel Ángel Motis
is a Professor of History at the San Jorge University (Saragossa, Spain). He is Doctor in History and Doctor in Law (University of Zaragoza), as well as Doctor in Social and Cultural Anthropology (Complutense University of Madrid). His research interests are History of the Jews in Spain, Inquisition, History of Religions and History of Women in the Middle Ages. His latest books include: Vivencias, emociones y perfiles femeninos. Judeoconversas e Inquisición en Aragón en el siglo xv (Madrid, 2020); La expulsión de los judíos de Calatayud: Anatomía de una encrucijada (Calatayud, 2022); and Procesos inquisitoriales de judeoconversas en Aragón. Edición y estudio (Zaragoza, 2024).
is a Professor emerita of History at Loyola University Chicago (USA). Trained in medieval history, she is author of a number of books on its religious life, including To Be the Neighbor of St. Peter: The Social Meaning of Cluny’s Property, 909–1049 (Ithaca, 1989) and Negotiating Space: Power, Restraint, and Privileges of Immunity in Early Medieval Europe (Ithaca, 1999). She is now more closely associated with the History of Emotions. In that field she has published Emotional Communities in the Early Middle Ages (Ithaca, 2006); Generations of Feeling: A History of Emotions, 600–1700 (Cambridge, Eng. 2015); What Is the History of Emotions? (with Riccardo Cristiani, Cambridge, Eng. 2017); and most recently Love: A History in Five Fantasies (Cambridge, Eng. 2021; translation: Madrid, 2022). She has recently completed a study of the history of the emotions of old age.
Josep Maria Ruiz Simon
is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Girona (Spain). His current research focuses on medieval thought and political philosophy, especially the study of the theory and practice of the politics of fiction in the history of philosophy. On these topics he has published articles and book chapters such as “Les ‘metàfores morals’ de l’ermità Blaquerna. A propòsit de la manera i la matèria del Llibre d’amic e amat” eHumanista/IVITRA 8(2015), 68–85; “La política de la ficció. Remarques sobre la dualitat de discursos del ‘Leviathan’ de Thomas Hobbes” in Cogitare aude (Girona, 2016), p. 285–302; “L’Art de Llull com a ciència contemplativa i com a filosofia política” in Actes del congrés de clausura de l’any Llull. Ramon Llull, pensador i escriptor (Barcelona, 2018), pp. 143–176; “Extirpar o permetre. Les raons de la intolerància i la tolerància a la Baixa Edat Mitjana” in Creences a l’època medieval: ortodoxia i heretgia (Lleida, 2018), pp. 19–36; “The palace and the ramparts: Spinoza’s stratagems to defend sovereignty from the seditious opinion of the clergy” in Religion and Power in Spinoza. Essays on the Tractatus Theologico-Politicus (Bern, 2020), pp. 81–112; and “Sobre les discrepàncies respecte a la intenció dels autors en els diàlegs de ‘Lo somni’” in Homenatge Lola Badia (Barcelona, 2021), pp. 225–236.
Flocel Sabaté
is a Professor of Medieval History at the University of Lleida (Spain), researcher of the Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies (icrea), Doctor Honoris Causa by the Universidad Nacional de Cuyo (Mendoza, Argentina), President of the Association of Historians of the Crown of Aragon (hiscoar) and Director of the Journal Imago Temporis. Medium Aevum. His research focusses on Society, Justice, Power and Territory in the Crown of Aragon. His
Karen Stöber
Is a Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Lleida (Spain), after earned her Master at the Universiy of Glasgow and Doctorate at the University of Southampton. Her research focuses on the social history of medieval religious communities. She has worked on the relationships between the laity and monastic communities, and on medieval Welsh poetry as a source for the historian. She is co-founder (with Janet Burton) of the Journal of Medieval Monastic Studies and the book series Medieval Monastic Studies. Together with Janet Burton she created the Monastic Wales Project. Among her publications it can be underlined: Abbey and priories of Medieval Wales (with Janet Burton, Cardiff, 2016) and Late medieval monasteries and their patrons: England and Wales, c. 1350–1540 (Woodbridge, 2007).
Alberto Velasco
is Associate Lecturer in Medieval Art and Cultural Heritage at the University of Lleida (Spain) and the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (Barcelona, Spain). His area of expertise includes the Spanish painting from the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries, as well as Gothic sculpture in Catalonia, medieval iconography and museology, topics on which he has published several books and articles in academic journals. He has also worked on the history of art collecting in Catalonia, particularly focusing on the interest triggered by medieval works among 19th and 20th collectors, and the activity of antique dealers. His books include Spanish Paintings from 14th to 16th Centuries (Madrid-London, 2019); Saint Martin and the Beggar. A Masterpiece by Jaume and Pere Serra (Buenos Aires, 2019); and Masterpieces from the Gothic to the Renaissance (1350–1550) (Barcelona, 2020), as well as the edition (with Francesc Fité) of the Late Gothic Painting in the Crown of Aragon and the Hispanic Kingdoms (Leiden-Boston, 2018).
Alexandra Velissariou
(1981–2020), was a Lecturer in Medieval French Language and Literature at University Littoral Côte d’Opale (Dunkerque – Boulogne-sur-Mer, France). She