Spaces of Knowledge

Noemi Barrera is a PhD candidate at the Department of History of Philosophy at the University of Barcelona. She is the author of “Bartholomaeus Anglicus como compilador” in The Compilation of Knowledge in the Middle Ages, and writes about medieval encyclopedias.Gemma Pellissa-Prades is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University and she holds a PhD in Catalan Literature from the University of Barcelona. She has written several articles about medieval sentimental romances, such as “Creating New Myths in the 15th-century” in Comparative Becomings: Cultures in Translation.Delfi-Isabel Nieto-Isabel has earned a pre-doctoral fellowship and is completing her PhD at the University of Barcelona. She contributed to the volume Women’s Networks of Spiritual Promotion in the Peninsular Kingdoms, with the article “The Network of Beguin Spirituality in the Early 14th-century Languedoc”. Laia Sallés Vilaseca is a PhD candidate in History and an Assistant Researcher and Teacher at the University of Barcelona. She has been awarded with a pre-doctoral fellowship and her PhD dissertation’s title is “The knowledge of Islam from the Latin Western Christianity prior to the 13th century”.Georgina Rabassó is a PhD candidate in Philosophy at the University of Barcelona. She has published “Las virtudes, fuerzas vivas del alma en Hildegarda de Bingen” in Cauriensia, and “El cielo y la tierra en el Hortus deliciarum de Herrada de Hohenbourg” in The compilation of Knowledge in the Middle Ages.Ivo Elies graduated in History from the University of Barcelona and he has an MA in Medieval Cultures. He has published various articles about agrarian history, such as “Infra terminum castro Subirads: els agents estructuradors del territori a petita escala” in the scientific journal Recerques: història, economia i cultura.Josep Bellver is Senior Research Fellow in Islamic Studies at the University of Barcelona. He has published in the Journal of the American Oriental Society; Arabica; Intellectual History of the Islamicate World; al-Qantara; and Anales del seminario de historia de la filosofía, among others.