Francesca Vendrell i Gallostra (1902, in Barcelona – 1994, in Barcelona) was a Medieval historian and Professor of Latin, Spanish and Literature.^[1]

She studied humanities in Barcelona and got her degree in 1921. She completed her PhD in 1931 with the thesis La corte literaria de Alfonso V de Aragón y tres poetas de la misma (1933). In 1984 she became a member of the Acadèmia de Bones Lletres de Barcelona, where she read her acceptance speech Margarida de Prades en el regnat de Ferran d'Antequera.^[2]

She started her career in 1922 as a volunteer assistant in the Balmes High School (Barcelona), and she became a permanent teacher in 1928. She worked for three months in Manresa in the academic year 1934–1935. She married the Jewish historian Josep Maria Millàs i Vallicrosa in 1935 and took leave until January 1938, when she started to work in a high school in Vilafranca del Penedès. She went back to work in the Balmes High School after the Civil War, and she published several academic papers on Medieval history.^[3]

Works

Vendrell published her studies in several scientific journals such as Sefarad. Her research focused mainly on the reign of Ferdinand I and the role of Jews and converts in the Crown of Aragon during the 15th cent.

• En torno a la redacción del acta de Caspe, 1957
• La aljama de Teruel y la proclamación de Fernando de Antequera, 1962–63
• El cancionero de palacio edició crítica, 1946
• Jaume el Dissortat, darrer comte d'Urgell, 1956, in collaboration with Àngels Masià de Ros
• Los cancioneros del siglo XV, in Historia general de las literaturas hispánicas dirigida, edited by G. Díaz-Plaja
• Rentas reales de Aragón de la época de Fernando I (1412–1416), 1977
• Violante de Bar y el Compromiso de Caspe, Barcelona, Acadèmia de Bones Lletres de Barcelona, 1992

References

External links

• Francesca Vendrell Gallostra, Violant de Bar i el Compromís de Casp, Barcelona, Academia de les Bones Lletres de Barcelona, 1992.