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Invisible biographies: marginalisation and marginality / Vicent Josep Escartí -- Magnum oculum et parvum os: Dones i silenci en la predicació de sant Vicent Ferrer / Maria Luz Mandingorra Llavata -- Vida quotidiana i marginalitat femenina a la València del segle XV / Anna Isabel Peirats Navarro -- Brujas y conversas: una lectura cultural de los procesos de la Inquisición Veneciana / Paola Bellomi -- Violence against women in Pere Joan Porcar's Dietari (16th-17th centuries) / Rafael Roca -- Women and carnal abstinence: female sinners and the Easter festivities in 16th-century Valencia / Pilar Valor Moncho -- Humble but non-compliant: modest women defending their rights in Early Modern Catalonia / Josep Capdeferro -- Bandolers, execucions i cobles populars, arran d'uns fets ocorreguts a la Conca d'Òdena (1573): bandits, executions and chapbooks, as a result of acts that took place in the Conca d'Òdena (1573) / Àlex Llinares Planells -- Els processos criminals del segle XVI, espill lingüístic de la vida social / Emili Casanova -- Anatomy of a murder: The death of the provincial of the preachers order in Aragon, Brother Domènec de Montemayor, in 1534 / Emilio Callado Estela -- Carlo Gesualdo, principe di Venosa: Le cameriere, l'amante e la strega, voci di dentro e identità velate / Anna Maria Compagna -- The mystery of obedience: La Boétie, Foucault at the margins of power / Andrea Nicolini -- The treatment of homosexuality in Valencian diaristic literature throughout the late 15th and early 16th centuries / Vicent Josep Escartí -- The inquisition against Friar Miquel de Morales, Trinitarian of Sant Bernat Monastery in Alzira (1574) / editor Jacob Mompó -- Aspetti della marginalità sessuale in alcuni romanzi medievali: aspects of sexual marginality in some medieval novels / Anna Maria Babbi -- Pain and faith: Aristocratic private life in the early modern Valencian kingdom throughout Català de Valleriola's Diary / Carles Fenollosa -- Als marges de la història de l'art: el pintor de cofres de València vers el 1400 / Francesc Granell -- Nota sobre Hernando Cabrera, carceller de la Inquisició de València (1515-1541) / Albert Toldrà i Vilardell -- Uses of TEI-XML for editing ancient texts dealing with marginal and queer lives / Rosanna Cantavella.

This editorial is not about pandemics. Or not only. After a long year, when most predictions about how society would change turned out to be wrong —or were revealed as mere wishful thinking—, if one thing has become clear it is the perennial difficulty, as Walker Kaplan noted in a recent article in LitHub (2020), of writing "about the swamp while still being waist-deep in it". Experiences of social and political unrest, trauma, or crises in the broadest sense "need time to percolate" and it is usually easier to look at them from a distance, obliquely, or with some measure of historical perspective (Power, 2020). And this applies to fiction as well as to historical, sociological or political analyses. In other words, the challenges of the last year are compounded by the difficulty of accurately diagnosing the present because, as the philosopher Patricia Manrique notes, faced with the novelty of a "crisis" the usual reflex is to interpret it within the parameters of the already known. We tend to appeal to tired tropes and dull meanings, for example our understanding of "time" and "crisis", in our attempt to name that which does not yet have a name. In these brief introductory notes, I turn to these three concepts —contemporaneity, crisis, time— as a means of providing a framework for approaching the eight articles that make up this monographic dossier. In their examination of literary texts that traverse the long twentieth century and reach into the twenty-first, they span almost a century, from Virginia Woolf's first modernist novel, published in 1922, to works published as recently as 2019.