
Lúa Blanca Garea Garrido received her BA in Classical Philology from the University of Santiago de Compostela, where she is currently a Ph.D. candidate supported by a predoctoral fellowship funded by the Xunta de Galicia (ED481A). Her doctoral dissertation focuses on the scientific learning and intellectual culture of the mendicant orders in the thirteenth-century Santiago de Compostela, with a particular focus in the study and translation of the works of Bishop Pedro Gallego. She has participated in and organized different national and international conferences and seminars and has completed two research stays, one at SISMEL (Florence, Italy) and another at the Warburg Institute (London, United Kingdom). She is also a member of the working group for the Spanish research project “LETRA. Lectura, comentario y traducción de autores clásicos en la Edad Media hispánica: estudio, edición y catálogo”.