Eleonora Lombardo studied Medieval History and received her PhD in History of Christianity in Padua. She held post-doc research fellowships in Lisbon (IEM-FCSH/UNL), Oporto (IF-FLUP, CITCEM-FLUP) and Padua, experiencing teaching in different languages and topics. She has several collaborations in Italy and abroad. She was the PI of a transnational project between Portugal and Slovachy on the rise of vernacular languages at the borders of Latin World in Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Age (2018-2022) and the Core member of Portuguese national project on works attributed to Peter of Spain, leading research on some collections attributed to him (2016-2019). Her main research interests concern Medieval and Early Modern communication and learning, i.e. preaching and sermons, intellectual history, hagiography, codicology, and text edition. She is an appreciated specialist in Medieval sermon studies and has published on Franciscan and Dominican sermons, focusing on the construction of the devotion to saint Anthony of Padua/Lisbon (13^th-16^th cent.), on anti-heretical sermons from Italy and France, hagiography, political and university preaching. As a PNRR research assistant in History of Christianity, she is working on the POBIMA project at the Department of Cultural Heritage (DBC) aiming at studying sermons concerning nutrition, fasting and corporeality, focusing on a selected group of sources from Italy and Southern France from 13^th to 15^th cent.