Flocel Sabaté is Professor of Medieval History at the University of Lleida, Catalonia, Spain. He has served as Guest Professor in such universities as Paris-1, Poitiers, Yale and Mexico, led a Research Institute in Spain (Institute for Research into Identities and Society) and held posts in university agencies in different countries, including Spain, Romania and Chile. The author of a number of research works about the Middle Ages, he has won various prizes and is doctor honoris causa of the Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Mendoza, Argentina.