Professor of mediaeval history at the University of Barcelona. Her main field of research revolves around mediaeval spirituality, especially the area of female religiosity. She recently published El poder del objeto (Siruela) about people’s relationship with objects in the late Middle Ages. Together with mediaevalist Victoria Cirlot she published La mirada interior (Siruela), bringing together the stories of eight mystical visionaries from the 12th to 14th centuries, including Hildegard of Bingen, Hadewijch of Antwerp, Beatrice of Nazareth, Mechthild of Magdeburg, Marguerite d’Oingt, Marguerite Porete, Angela of Foligno and Julian of Norwich. She edited, also for Siruela, the text Vida by the German monk Heinrich Seuse, as well as the book for which Marguerite Porete was burned at the stake in 1310, one of the greatest books of Western mystical literature: The Mirror of Simple Souls. This book was to have a decisive influence on the thought of Meister Eckhart and other mediaeval mystics, and had a special impact in the 20th century on Simone Weil.
- Pathways to Another Way of Doing Things
