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Carme Arronis Llopis

has a PhD in Catalan Philology and is a Lecturer at the Universitat d’Alacant. Her main research interest focuses on the study and edition of Hispanic hagiographic and devotional texts from the Middle Ages to the present. Of particular note is her work on the Valencian author Miquel Peres, the lives of the Virgin, and collections of Marian miracles. She has also published studies of censorship in sixteenth-century devotional texts.

Fernando Baños Vallejo

is Professor of Literary Theory and Comparative Literature at the Universitat d’Alacant. He worked at the Universidad de Oviedo until August 2015. From 1999 to September 2012 he held various positions on the Directorial Board of semyr (Sociedad de Estudios Medievales y Renacentistas, based at the University of Salamanca), serving the last four years as President. His research deals with devotional literary genres of the Middle Ages, focusing in particular on miracles and the legends of the saints. Of particular note are his monograph, Las Vidas de santos en la literatura medieval española (2003), and his critical edition of Gonzalo de Berceo’s Milagros de Nuestra Señora (2011).

Andrew M. Beresford

is Professor of Medieval and Renaissance Studies at the University of Durham. He has published widely on Spanish hagiography and devotional literature, including monographs on Thaïs and Pelagia (2007), Agnes (2007), and Agatha and Lucy (2010). He has edited several books, most recently Spanish Art in County Durham, with Clare Baron (Auckland Castle). He is a founder member of Durham University’s Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (imems) and is Associate Director of the Centre for Visual Arts and Cultures (cvac). He is currently completing a book on the flaying of St. Bartholomew in Spanish art and literature.

Sarah Jane Boss

is Director of the Centre for Marian Studies, University of Roehampton (London). She also teaches Theology for the Department of Continuing Education, University of Oxford, and Mariology at St. Mary’s College, Oscott. She has published numerous books and articles on the theology and cult of the Virgin Mary, and has also published several papers on the work of Ramon Llull.

Sarah V. Buxton

is Assistant Professor in Hispanic Studies at the University of Durham. She edits and publishes on medieval Castilian hagiography. Her research interests include concepts of companionship and communities, physical aesthetics, and the role of the landscape in medieval texts. She is currently working on a monograph on monstrosity in the legend of Saint Christopher.

Marinela Garcia Sempere

has been Associate Professor in the Department of Catalan Philology at the Universitat d’Alacant since 2000. Her main research field is Catalan literature of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern period. She has published numerous studies of religious literature and hagiography, including Vides medievals de sants (2012), Planctus (2016), and the Catalan Legenda aurea or Flos sanctorum (2016). She directs the research group Explanat: recerques de llengua i literatura catalanes from the Universitat d’Alacant, and is currently working on a study and edition of Catalan manuscripts of the Legenda aurea.

Ryan D. Giles

is Associate Professor at Indiana University, Bloomington. His research focuses on medieval and Renaissance parody and satire, sanctity, theology, and popular devotion, intersections between early Iberian literatures and material culture. He is the author of The Laughter of the Saints: Parodies of Holiness in Late Medieval and Renaissance Spain (University of Toronto Press, 2009), and Inscribed Power: Amulets and Magic in Early Spanish Literature (University of Toronto Press, 2017). He is also the co-editor, with Matthew Bailey, of Charlemagne and His Legend in Early Spanish Literature and Historiography (Boydell and Brewer, 2016). He was the recipient of the John K. Walsh Prize, awarded by the Executive Committee of the Modern Language Association Forum, Medieval Iberian Literature, Language, and Culture (2008, 2016).

Ariel Guiance

gained his doctorate from the Universidad de Buenos Aires and is currently Professor of Medieval History at the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. He has held posts at the Instituto Universitario de Historia Simancas and the Universidad de Valladolid in Spain. A specialist in the cultural and religious history of the medieval Iberian Peninsula, he is the author of numerous books and articles, including Los discursos sobre la muerte en la España medieval: siglos VIIXV (1998), Entre el cielo y la Tierra: escatología y sociedad en el mundo medieval (2009), and La influencia de la historiografía española en la producción histórica americana (2011). He is also the editor of Legendario cristiano: creencias y espiritualidad en el pensamiento medieval (2014). He is currently Director of the Instituto Multidisciplinario de Historia y Ciencias Humanas del conicet and corresponding member of the Academia Portuguesa da História.

Lluís Ramon i Ferrer

is Professor of Catalan literature at the Universidad Católica de Valencia San Vicente Mártir. He has published two critical editions of medieval texts: the Communilloquium of Joan de Gal·les (1997) and Rams de Flores by Juan Fernández de Heredia (2006). He currently works on interdisciplinary relationships between medieval literature and art.

Rebeca Sanmartín Bastida

is Associate Professor at the Universidad Complutense in Madrid. She specializes in the study of nineteenth-century medievalism and the performative qualities of medieval texts, and has published several books and articles. She is currently leading a four-year research project (2016–19), funded by the Spanish Government, analysing the rise of female spiritual authority in convents and religious houses for women. She has worked at the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (1996–2004) and at the University of Manchester (2001–03). She has also been Visiting Professor at the University of Nottingham (2014) and the Università degli Studi di Trento (2016).

Connie L. Scarborough

is Professor of Spanish in the Department of Classical and Modern Languages as Texas Tech University where she serves as co-director of the graduate programme in Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Her bilingual edition of the poetry of Marcia Belisarda, “Dando a conocer estos versos su legítimo autor”: The Poetry of Marcia Belisarda aka Sor María de Santa Isabel, is in press with the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. She recently completed a manuscript for Amsterdam University Press entitled Cursed or Cured: Disability in Medieval Spanish Texts. In 2013 she published Inscribing the Environment: Ecocritical Approaches to Medieval Spanish Literature with De Gruyter press, and in 2014 she edited Revisiting Convivencia, published by Juan de la Cuesta. She serves on the Executive Council for Medieval Iberian Studies for the Modern Language Association.

Lesley K. Twomey

is Professor of Medieval and Golden Age Iberian Art and Literature at the University of Northumbria (Department of Arts). She has published numerous articles on Marian and other religious literature in Spain, with recent monographs including The Serpent and the Rose (Leiden: Brill, 2008) and The Fabric of Marian Devotion in Isabel de Villena’s Vita Christi (Woodbridge: Tamesis, 2013). Her book The Sacred Space of the Virgin Mary in Medieval Hispanic Literature is due out shortly with Tamesis.

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Christ, Mary, and the Saints

Reading Religious Subjects in Medieval and Renaissance Spain

Series:  The Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World, Volume: 66

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