Maria Teresa Ferrer i Mallol

Maria Teresa Ferrer i Mallol (25 August 1940 in Barcelona – 4 March 2017) was a Spanish medieval historian, who worked at the Institut Milà i Fontanals and Institut d'Estudis Catalans.

In this Catalan name, the first or paternal surname is Ferrer and the second or maternal family name is Mallol; both are generally joined by the conjunction "i".
Maria Teresa Ferrer i Mallol
Headshot of a woman with brown hair
Born(1940-08-25)25 August 1940
Barcelona, Spain
Died4 March 2017(2017-03-04) (aged 76)
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
NationalitySpanish
OccupationMedieval historian
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Barcelona
ThesisMoros i cristians, almogàvers i collerats a la frontera d’Oriola (1984)
Doctoral advisorEmilio Sáez
Academic work
DisciplineMedieval history
Sub-discipline14th and 15th century Catalan history
InstitutionsInstitut Milà i Fontanals
Institut d'Estudis Catalans
Main interestsfrontier history, maritime history, Mudéjar history

Early life and education

Maria Teresa Ferrer i Mallol was born in Barcelona on 25 August 1940.[1][2] Ferrer i Mallol received a degree in philosophy in 1963 from the University of Barcelona,[1] and completed a PhD at the same institution in 1984.[1][2]

Academic focus

Ferrer i Mallol's academic career spanned the years 1963 to 2011.[3] Her work focused upon Catalonia in the 14th and 15th centuries, particularly economic and merchant trading in those periods.[1] She believed that the Mudéjar Muslim, Jewish and Christian communities living in Catalonia and Valencia in the 14th century managed to co-exist due to religious segregation.[4][5] She believed this segregation and discrimination was forced upon the Mudéjar community.[4]

Career

In 1972, she began working at the Institut Milà i Fontanals (IMF),[1] initially as a Scientific Assistant for Emilio Sáez.[6] From 1981–1984, she also worked on the Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana for the Generalitat de Catalunya.[7] Regina Sáinz de la Maza was her understudy at the IMF between 1985 and 1994.[8] In 1991, fellow Catalan medieval historian Josep Trenchs gave Ferrer i Mallol his last work, so that she could publish it for him posthumously.[9] From 1992 until 2014, she was a member of the historical and archaeological department of the Institut d'Estudis Catalans (IEC).[10] She was the secretary of the IEC from 1995–2001,[10] then the vice-president from 2001–2006,[10] and was president from 2006–2014.[1][2][10]

In addition, Ferrer i Mallol wrote for the Anuario de Estudios Medievales, and collaborated with the University of Leeds on sections of the International Medieval Bibliography.[6] She revised the historical commentary by Ferran Soldevila in a re-edition of the The Four Great Chronicles.[6] In 1993, she became a member of the Spanish Society of Medieval Studies.[7] In 2002, she became Professor of Research at the IMF.[1]

After her retirement in 2011, the IMF honoured Ferrer i Mallol by producing the work La Corona catalanoaragonesa, l'Islam i el món mediterrani. Estudis d'història medieval en homenatge a la doctora Maria Teresa Ferrer i Mallol (=The Catalan-Aragonese Crown, Islam and the Mediterranean World: Studies in Medieval History in Honour of Dr Maria Teresa Ferrer i Mallol).[6][7]

Death and legacy

Ferrer i Mallol died in 2017.[1][2] Speaking after her death, Josep Massot i Muntaner, current president of the historical and archaeological department of the IEC, praised Ferrer i Mallol as "a great historian, highly distinguished and productive, who has left an important intellectual legacy to the institution that we will uphold".[2] In 2017, she was posthumously awarded the Ferran Soldevila Prize for her work in medieval history.[6]

Works
  • (with Emilio Sáez, Josep Trenchs i Odena and Lasoli Sáinz de la Maza) Diplomatario del Cardenal Gil de Albornoz (=Diplomatarium of Cardinal Gil de Albornoz), Regina, 1976-1995, ISBN 84-00-07548-X
  • (with Arcadi García i Sanz) Assegurances i canvis marítims medievals a Barcelona (=Medieval Maritime Insurance and Exchange in Barcelona), 1983, ISBN 84-7283-043-8
  • Els sarraïns de la Corona catalanoaragonesa en el segle XIV. Segregació i discriminació (=The Saracens of the Catalan-Aragonese Crown in the 14th century: Segregation and Discrimination), 1987, ISBN 84-00-06634-0
  • La frontera amb l'Islam en el segle XIV. Cristians i sarraïns al País Valencià (=The Frontier with Islam in the 14th century: Christians and Saracens in the Valencian Country), 1988, ISBN 84-00-06814-9
  • Organització i defensa d'un territori fronterer. La governació d'Oriola en el segle XIV (=Organisation and Defence of a Frontier Territory: The Governorate of Orihuela in the 14th century), 1990, ISBN 84-00-07074-7
  • Corsarios castellanos y vascos en el Mediterráneo medieval (=Castilian and Basque Corsairs in the Medieval Mediterranean), 2000, ISBN 84-00-07903-5
  • Entre la paz y la guerra. La Corona Catalano-aragonesa y Castilla en la Baja Edad Media (=Between Peace and War: The Catalan-Aragonese Crown and Castile in the Late Middle Ages), 2005, ISBN 84-00-08388-1
  • Fuentes documentales para el estudio de los mudéjares (=Documentary Sources for the Study of the Mudéjars), 2005, ISBN 84-96053-15-6

Notes
  1. "Maria Teresa Ferrer i Mallol" (in Catalan). Enciclopedia.cat. Retrieved 1 February 2019.
  2. "Mor la medievalista Maria Teresa Ferrer i Mallol als 76 anys". Ara (in Catalan). 6 March 2017. Retrieved 1 February 2019.
  3. La Corona catalanoaragonesa, l'Islam i el món mediterrani. Estudis d'història medieval en homenatge a la doctora Maria Teresa Ferrer i Mallol (in Catalan). Spanish National Research Council. 2013. hdl:10261/75458. ISBN 9788400096496. Retrieved 1 February 2019.
  4. O'Connor, Isabel (2003). A Forgotten Community: The Mudejar Aljama of Xátiva, 1240–1327. Brill Publishers. pp. 23–24. ISBN 9004128468. Retrieved 2 February 2019.
  5. Navarro, David (February 2013). "Interacciones narrativas árabe, cristiana y judía: convivencia literaria en el Medievo peninsular". University of Western Ontario (in Spanish). p. 141.
  6. "Mª Teresa Ferrer i Mallol, exdirectora de la IMF, galardonada, a título póstumo, con el Premio de Honor "Ferran Soldevila" 2017". Institut Milà i Fontanals (in Catalan). June 2017. Retrieved 1 February 2019.
  7. Mutgé i Vives, Josefa; Salicrú i Lluch, Roser; Vela Aulesa, Carles (2013). La Corona catalanoaragonesa, l'Islam i el món mediterrani. Estudis d'història medieval en homenatge a la doctora Maria Teresa Ferrer i Mallol [The Catalan-Aragonese Crown, Islam and the Mediterranean world. Studies of medieval history in homage to Dr. Maria Teresa Ferrer and Mallol] (in Catalan). Department of Historical Sciences-Medieval Studies. pp. 13–15.
  8. "Católicos y científicos: Regina Sainz de la Maza, por Alfonso V. Carrascosa, científico del CSIC". Revista Ecclesia (in Spanish). May 2018. Retrieved 2 February 2019.
  9. Ferrer i Mallol, Maria Teresa (2013). L'obra pòstuma de Josep Trenchs Òdena sobre la cultura catalana medieval [The posthumous work of Josep Trenchs Òdena on medieval Catalan culture]. Vilallonga del Camp Town Council.
  10. "Mor la medievalista i expresidenta de la Secció Històrico-Arqueològica de l'IEC Maria Teresa Ferrer i Mallol". VilaWeb (in Catalan). 6 March 2017. Retrieved 7 February 2019.

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