Los profesionales de la medicina y la difusión del conocimiento entre Sicilia y los reinos ibéricos (siglos XIII-XV): balance historiográfico, recursos en red y nuevas perspectivas de investigación

The Medieval Mediterranean was a privileged space for cultural, political and scientific exchange, with Sicily and the Iberian kingdoms playing a prominent role. Through trade routes and dynastic connections, these regions facilitated the circulation of medical ideas, manuscripts and health professionals. This article explores the networks of medical knowledge in this context, with an emphasis on the interaction between the Sicilian and Catalan-Aragonese courts. In particular, the social and administrative organisation of the Crown of Aragon allowed the creation of a vast corpus of documents, covering multiple aspects of the social and cultural history of medicine and health, both human and veterinary. One of the significant advances in the conservation of and access to this documentation is the MedCat initiative (Corpus Medicorum Catalanorum), a key tool in the study of human and animal health, which stands out for its wide possibilities of access and interdisciplinary analysis. MedCat also promotes the necessary synergies to ensure that this documentation is not lost or remains out of reach for research, thanks to the possibilities of classification and dissemination offered by Digital Humanities