A study of the cultural practices and paradigms of reading and textual composition among medieval Iberian women readers and writers (specifically Violant of Bar, Leonor López de Córdoba, Constanza de Castilla, Teresa de Cartagena and Isabel de Villena).

Montserrat Piera, Ph.D. (1991), Pennsylvania State University, is Professor of Medieval Iberian Studies at Temple University. She has published several books, edited collections and articles on topics as varied as chivalresque literature, medieval travel and the representation of food in medieval texts.