Shouting at the Angels : visual Experience in Angela of Foligno’s Memoriale

This article forms part of a larger research project partly funded by the Bibliotheca Mystica et Philosophica Alois M. Haas Research Group (2009SGR1551, granted by the “Departament d’Economía i Conexeiment de la Generalitat de Cataluya”), which allowed me to undertake a research trip to Assisi to work with the manuscript traditionally known as A (Assisi Codex, Biblioteca Comunale 342), which contains the most reliable version of Angela’s writings. I want to thank all the members of the group for their personal support, particularly Dr. Victoria Cirlot, who introduced me to Angela so many years ago, and Dr. Blanca Garí (Universitat de Barcelona), who helped me with Angela’s manuscripts in the Catalan tradition. I also want to express my gratitude to all WIFIT (Women in the Franciscan Intellectual Tradition) members, particularly Pacelli Millane and Linda Burke for their support in my search for the English version of the Latin Memoriale text. 2 Pablo.garcia@uab.cat. Researcher in Bibliotheca Mysthica et Philosophica Alois M. Haas Research Group (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) and Professor of Literature at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. His main research interests are the links between word and image, Late Medieval mysticism and medieval reading practices and manuscript culture. He is the editor and translator of Angela of Foligno’s Memoriale in Spanish (Madrid: Siruela, 2014, in press) and author of Poética de la visibilidad en el Mirouer des simples ames de Marguerite Porete (Barcelona, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2009).