Victoria Cirlot

(Barcelona, Spain, 1955). She is currently a professor of Romance Philology in the Humanities Department at Barcelona's Pompeu Fabra University and head of the same university's Ph.D. program. She has devoted her study to the Middle Ages: the culture of chivalry and mysticism. She has translated a number of Arthurian novels from the 12^th and 13^th centuries from the old French, including Perlesvaus and El alto libro del Grial (The High History of the Holy Grail, published by Siruela, reissued a number of times), as well as troubadour poetry (Jaufré Rudel, El amor de lonh, Columna, Barcelona 1998). Her most noteworthy book on the Arthurian novel is entitled Figuras del destino. Mitos y símbolos de la Europa medieval (Figures of destiny. Myths and symbols of Medieval Europe) Siruela, Madrid 2005. In the field of medieval mysticism she has written about Hildegard von Bingen (Vida y visiones de Hildegard von Bingen (The Life and Visions of Hildegard von Bingen), Siruela, Madrid 1997-2006), as well as other mystical writers (La mirada interior. Escritoras místicas y visionarias de la Edad Media (The Inner World: Mystical and Visionary Writers in the Middle Ages), Siruela, Madrid 2008, collaboration). She has worked on the visionary phenomena through comparative studies of the Middle Ages and the 20^th Century: La visión abierta. Del mito del Grial al surrealismo (The Open Vision: From the Grail Legend to Surrealism), Siruela, Madrid 2010). She co-edited the collection El Árbol del Paraiso for Siruela publishers. She has also edited the work of her father, poet Juan Eduardo Cirlot.