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Digital bibliographic corpus of medieval Catalan literature (BILICAME)*

Rafael ALEMANY – Llúcia MARTÍN

Universitat d’Alacant: Institut Interuniversitari de Filologia Valenciana



Rosanna CANTAVELLA

Universitat de València: Institut Interuniversitari de Filologia Valenciana

The main purpose of our database project () is to compile an exhaustive, open-access bibliographical corpus of medieval Catalan literature, to be updated annually1 and accessible in Catalan, Spanish and English.2

Given our scheme’s magnitude, we have divided our tasks in several stages. The first one, to be implemented in 2009-11, involves developing the relevant IT application and the partial materialisation of the bibliographic database. We are at present concentrating our efforts in six of the most important fifteenth-century Valencian writers: Ausiàs March, Joanot Martorell, Jaume Roig, Isabel de Villena, Joan Roís de Corella and Bernat Fenollar (including the satirical and religious writers of the latter’s circle). This first stage constitutes a project in itself, funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation, and its research team is formed by Rafael Alemany (professor at the Universitat d’Alacant), Rosanna Cantavella (professor at the Universitat de València), Llúcia Martín (assistant professor at the Universitat d’Alacant), Anna Isabel Peirats (lecturer at Valencia’s Universidad San Vicente Mártir), Eduard Baile (postgraduate student at ← 363 | 364 → the Universitat d’Alacant) and Magdalena Llorca and Joan Ignasi Soriano (postgraduate assistants at the Universitat d’Alacant), all adscribed to the Department of Catalan and...