It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Jill Rosemary Webster, Director of CMS from 1989-1994, Professor of Spanish Language, Literature, and History at U of T’s Department of Spanish and Portuguese, and once Associate Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
Professor Webster published over 30 scholarly articles, and two books, Carmel in Medieval Catalonia (Brill 1999), and Els Menorets: The Franciscans in the Realms of Aragon From St. Francis to the Black Death (PIMS 1993).
Professor Webster conducted interviews with Catalan anarchists who had fled from Franco’s Spain to live in France, favouring Catalan independence. Though her notes sadly remained unpublished, she saved and donated them to the post-Franco Spanish archives. They were delighted, as they had nothing like it before, and she was presented with a scroll from the King of Spain.