Vicent Martines

Vicent Martines is a Professor at the University of Alicante. He is a member of the Reial Acadèmia de Bones Lletres de Barcelona. He is the Co-director of the Centre Internacional d’Investigació d’Estudis Ibèrics / Internationales Institüt für Iberische Studien (Universitat d’Alacant / Otto-Friedrich Universität Bamberg). He is the chief editor of Series IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, John Benjamin (Amsterdam, The Netherlands / Philadelphia, USA) and co-editor of eHumanista/IVITRA. He also co-directs Mirabilia/MedTrans and Studia Iberica et Americana. Journal of Iberian and Latin American Literary and Cultural Studies. In addition, he directs the "Filología Catalana" & "Clásicos Valencianos" series of the Editorial Atenea-Centro de Lingüística Aplicada and the “European and Mediterranean Classics” series of Peter Lang International Publishing Company. He is the director of the "Textes catalanes modernes" series of the Classiques Garnier (Paris, France) and of the "Textes catalans du Moyen Âge" series of the Textes littéraires du Moyen Âge (Paris, France). He has received the following awards: Rei En Pere el Catòlic d´Investigació (Institut d´Estudis Catalans, 1988), Premi d´Investigació Historicocultural Ibn Al-Abbar (Generalitat Valenciana, Ajuntament d´Onda, 1990), and the Premio de Ensayo de Catalán, Gallego y Vasco de la Fundación Ortega y Gasset (Fundació “La Caixa”, 1993). He is the author of over 220 publications.

Publications

Improving Mental Health and Wellbeing Through Bibliotherapy
Improving Mental Health and Wellbeing Through Bibliotherapy
Antonio Cortijo Ocaña, Vicent Martines Peres, Veronica Orazi. © 2025. 320 pages.
In a world that's constantly on the move and full of stress, finding ways to take care of our mental health can be a challenge. With the COVID-19 pandemic affecting our lives...
Advances in Literary and (Neuro)Linguistics Skills That Can Contribute to Healing: Reading Many Books Brings Us Closer to Life
Advances in Literary and (Neuro)Linguistics Skills That Can Contribute to Healing: Reading Many Books Brings Us Closer to Life
Vicent Martines. © 2024. 20 pages.
This chapter analyses the influence of bibliotherapy on the perceptions of readers (children, young people, and [older] adults) with special needs on their form of social...
Managing Pandemic Isolation With Literature as Therapy
Managing Pandemic Isolation With Literature as Therapy
Antonio Cortijo Ocaña, Vicent Martines, Veronica Orazi. © 2023. 281 pages.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, many people had to cope with isolation due to lockdown policies that forced them to engage in fewer social activities. People were confined to the...
The Power of the Word That Leads to Healing: Forerunners of Bibliotherapy and Therapeutic Writing (Charles d'Orléans, Jordi de Sant Jordi, Joan Roís de Corella)
The Power of the Word That Leads to Healing: Forerunners of Bibliotherapy and Therapeutic Writing (Charles d'Orléans, Jordi de Sant Jordi, Joan Roís de Corella)
Vicent Martines. © 2023. 13 pages.
The authors study the contribution of some classics of medieval and renaissance romance literature to therapeutic writing and bibliotherapy as a means to encourage reading and...
Learned and Polyglot Ladies Within a Male and Not-so-Learned Governmental Context
Learned and Polyglot Ladies Within a Male and Not-so-Learned Governmental Context
Vicent Martines. © 2023. 16 pages.
In this chapter the authors analyze how unjust, biased, interested, and malevolent results topos “quid est mulier [what is a woman]?”. The authors study how, before the topos of...
Handbook of Research on Historical Pandemic Analysis and the Social Implications of COVID-19
Handbook of Research on Historical Pandemic Analysis and the Social Implications of COVID-19
Antonio Cortijo Ocaña, Vicent Martines. © 2022. 353 pages.
The current health situation has been described as chaotic and devastating. Humanity’s trust in the future and in its human capacity to overcome a disaster of such magnitude is...
The Pandemic of Tyranny: The Virus of Hatred and Other Dangers Faced by Democracy During a Pandemic – The Thirty Tyrants of Athens and the Prevention of Tyranny by Civic Humanism
The Pandemic of Tyranny: The Virus of Hatred and Other Dangers Faced by Democracy During a Pandemic – The Thirty Tyrants of Athens and the Prevention of Tyranny by Civic Humanism
Vicent Martines. © 2022. 11 pages.
This chapter deals with some of the dangers of the “pandemic” of tyranny that can be made worse during a time of a medical pandemic. In any event, it can result in an attempt to...
The Treaty of Meaux-Paris (1228): A Forerunner of the Nueva Planta Decrees – Consequences of the Right of Conquest for the Crown of Aragon
The Treaty of Meaux-Paris (1228): A Forerunner of the Nueva Planta Decrees – Consequences of the Right of Conquest for the Crown of Aragon
Vicent Martines. © 2021. 29 pages.
The authors analyze the Treaty of Meaux-Paris (1228) signed between France and Toulouse. It has extraordinary relevance as it establishes the terms of the application of French...