Victoria Cirlot was born in Barcelona in 1955. She is currently a professor of Romance philology at the Faculty of Humanities of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, and Director of the Doctorate at said University. She has dedicated herself to the study of the Middle Ages: chivalric and mystical culture. She made several translations of Arthurian novels from the 12th and 13th centuries from Old French, such asPerlesvausorThe High Book of the Grail(published by Siruela with several reissues) and also of troubadour lyric (Jaufré Rudel,Ionh's love, Columna, Barcelona 1998). Among his books dedicated to the Arthurian novel, the following stands outFigures of Destiny. Myths and Symbols of Medieval Europe, Siruela, Madrid 2005. In the field of medieval mysticism, she has dealt with Hildegard von Bingen (Life and Visions of Hildegard von Bingen, Siruela, Madrid 1997-2006), as well as other mystical writers (The Inner Gaze. Mystical and Visionary Writers of the Middle Ages, Siruela, Madrid 2008, in collaboration). He has worked on the visionary phenomenon in comparative studies of the Middle Ages and the 20th century:Hildegard von Bingen and the Visionary Tradition of the West, Herder, Barcelona 2005, and inThe Open Vision. The Myth of the Grail and Surrealism, Siruela, Madrid 2010). She is the director of the El Árbol del Paraiso collection at Siruela publishing house. She has also been in charge of editing the work of her father, the poet and author ofDictionary of Symbols, Juan Eduardo Cirlot. Source: http://www.siruela.com/novedades.php?&id_autor=558
