Team

Project Members

Anna Alberni

PhD in Catalan Philology from the Universitat de Barcelona (2003) and ICREA Professor at the same university since 2009. Her research focuses on the editing and study of Catalan poetry from the 14th to the 15th centuries, with special attention to linguistic and textual aspects. She was a researcher at the universities of Roma-La Sapienza and L'Aquila (2003-2005) and ICREA Junior Researcher at the University of Girona (2005-2009). She is a member of the Centre de Documentació Ramon Llull and the IRCVM (UB). She has directed two Spanish research projects on the reception of French poetry in the Crown of Aragon (FFI 2009-10065, FFI 2014-54844-P) and a European project on the legacy of troubadours in Catalan poetry (The Last Song of the Troubadours. Linguistic Codification and Construction of a Literary Canon in the Crown of Aragon, ERC StG, GA n. 241070). She coordinates the activities of the MiMus project, overseeing the Corpus TOC – Occitan-Catalan Treatises related to Las Leys d’Amors. She is responsible for the editorial revision of Catalan lyrical works.

Stefano Maria Cingolani

PhD in Romance Philology from the Università di Roma-La Sapienza. Formerly a professor at the Università di Roma II-Tor Vergata, the Universiat de Barcelona, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, and Universitat Rovira i Virgili, more recently he has worked as an independent researcher. In recent years, his research has focused on historiography and history of the medieval Crown of Aragon, the editing of chronicle texts, and biographies of kings. He has also studied issues of identity, diplomacy, regionalism, music, and entertainment at the courts of the kings of the House of Barcelona. He has published several collections of documents and letters. Within the MiMus project, he is responsible for exploring archives, transcribing documents, and studying the evolution of musical entertainment at the Catalan-Aragonese court, with a particular focus on the Royal Chapels.

Anna Fernàndez-Clot

Bachelor’s degree in Catalan Philology (2010) and PhD in Advanced Studies in Catalan Language and Literature from the Universitat de Barcelona (2017). She is a member of the Centre de Documentació Ramon Llull and the IRCVM (UB). Her research experience includes participation in various digital projects such as the Base de Dades Ramon Llull, Diccionari de Textos Catalans Antics, Nou Glossari General Lul·lià, and the website Manícula: taller d’edició i anotació de textos. Her research interests lie in the editing of medieval Catalan texts, with a particular focus on the verse works of Ramon Llull. Within the MiMus project, she studies the image of minstrels in literature and coordinates the development of the MiMus DB.

Simone Sari

Bachelor’s degree in Romance Philology from the Università di Trieste (2004) and Ph.D. from the European School in Romance Philology at the Università di Siena (in consortium with the universities of Milan, Pavia, Paris-Sorbonne IV, Santiago de Compostela, and Zurich), with a thesis on Lullian Mariology and the critical edition of Desconhort de nostra Dona and Hores de nostra Dona (texts published in NEORL XI, 2012). He taught Catalan literature at the Università di Bologna (2009-2010). He obtained a grant from the European MSCA-IF program at the Universitat de Barcelona (2017-2019), with a project on the Cent noms de Déu by Ramon Llull, and was a visiting professor at the Catholic University of Leuven (KU Leuven). He is a member of the Centre de Documentació Ramon Llull and serves on the board of the Associazione Italiana di Studi Catalani. He has primarily focused on the verse works of Ramon Llull and his relationships with Occitania and Islam. He has also translated works by Llull and Vita Christi by Isabel de Villena into Italian. As part of the MiMus project, he studies the presence of Jewish and Muslim minstrels at the Catalan-Aragonese court.

Carles Vela Aulesa

Bachelor’s degree in Geography and History (Medieval History Section) from the Universitat de Barcelona (1995), Master’s degree in Euro-Arab Studies from the Universitat de Girona (1996), and Ph.D. in Geography and History (Medieval History) from the UB (2005). He received training at the Milà i Fontanals Institution (CSIC, Barcelona). Professionally, he has been associated with various institutions, but has primarily worked as a freelance researcher. He has participated in numerous projects and research groups and currently co-directs, alongside Dr. Antoni Riera, the project Corpus documental de les relacions internacionals de la Corona d’Aragó at the Institut d’Estudis Catalans (IEC). His research has focused on various topics: social, familial, and professional relationships in urban environments, wills, municipal law, hospital assistance, international diplomatic relations, retail trade, and consumer credit. As part of the MiMus project, he coordinates the editing of the documentary corpus of the MiMus DB; his research focuses on the economic and contractual aspects of court musicians and artists.

Researchers associated with the project

Alexandra Beauchamp

Université de Limoges

Alexandra Beauchamp has a PhD in medieval history (University of Bordeaux III - Michel de Montaigne, 2005), she is a former member of the Casa de Velázquez (EHEHI, Madrid, 2003-2005), and an associate professor of medieval history at the University of Limoges since 2006. Her research focuses on the political and institutional history of the Crown of Aragon at the end of the Middle Ages (13th-15th centuries). She is particularly interested in the political, administrative, and accounting practices of the government and court of the kings, queens, and infants of Aragon, their relations with estates assemblies and subjects, and the role of women in these institutions and environments. Within the framework of the MiMus project, she focuses on the institutional dimension of entertainment at the court of the kings of the House of Aragon.

Maria Sofia Lannutti

Università degli Studi di Firenze

Maria Sofia Lannutti is Professor of Romance Philology at the University of Florence. She is primarily concerned with the relationship between text and music in medieval Romance literature and its manuscript tradition, comparative metrics, French, Italian, and Catalan medieval lyric, Occitan hagiographic literature, Dante's De vulgari eloquentia, the Commedia, and Petrarch's Canzoniere. She directs the Music Section "Clemente Terni and Matilde Fiorini Aragone" of the Fondazione Ezio Franceschini in Florence, and she conceived and directs the international project "Medioevo musicale" (MEM), an interdisciplinary bibliographic and discographic database on medieval music culture, constantly updated and available online on the MIRABILE portal. She coordinates the research activities of the ERC ArsNova project, also working on the edition and interpretation of poetic texts in relation to contemporary lyric production. Within the framework of the MiMus project, she studies medieval Catalan lyric from a Romance comparative perspective.

Yolanda Plumley

University of Exeter

Yolanda Plumley is Professor of Historical Musicology (emerita) at the University of Exeter. She has published widely on late medieval music and French lyric poetry, especially the works of Guillaume de Machaut and his contemporaries, as well as on music manuscripts, and music and court culture more broadly, notably that of Valois France. She is author of The Art of Grafted Song: Citation and Allusion in the Age of Machaut (Oxford University Press, 2013), co-author with Anne Stone of Codex Chantilly, Bibliothèque du Château de Chantilly, MS 564 (Brepols, 2008), and co-editor of several interdisciplinary volumes of essays. With R. Barton Palmer, she is general editor of the new edition of the complete poetry and music of Guillaume de Machaut (The Medieval Institute, 2016-). Within the framework of the MiMus project, she focuses on the musical and diplomatic relations between France and the Crown of Aragon.