Miguel Ángel Zalama is professor of the Department of Art History at the University of Valladolid, and his specialty is the History and Theory of Art of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. He has published important essays on Joan I and her husband, such as Vida cotidiana y arte en el palacio de la reina Juana I en Tordesillas (2000; 2nd ed., enlarged and revised, 2003). He currently directs the research group at the University of Valladolid Art, power and society in the Modern Age and the Tordesillas Center for Relations with Latin America.