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.

"Literary scholar Montserrat Piera’s timely and thoroughly researched monograph, Women Readers and Writers in Medieval Iberia: Spinning the Text, is a welcome and excellent addition. [...] It is a very welcome addition to the English-language corpus, and will be of considerable and durable value to Ibericists and non-Ibericists alike". Zita Eva Rohr, in Parergon, 37.2 (2020).

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.

"Literary scholar Montserrat Piera’s timely and thoroughly researched monograph, Women Readers and Writers in Medieval Iberia: Spinning the Text, is a welcome and excellent addition. [...] It is a very welcome addition to the English-language corpus, and will be of considerable and durable value to Ibericists and non-Ibericists alike". Zita Eva Rohr, in Parergon, 37.2 (2020).