Isabel de Villena (c. 1430–1490) was one of the most outstanding and renowned authors in the Iberian Peninsula during the fifteenth century. Of noble birth and educated at the court of Alfonso V of Aragon and María of Castile, she professed as a Poor Clare nun and served for decades as abbess at the monastery of La Santísima Trinidad in Valencia. Her meditation treatise, Vita Christi, was printed in 1497 and exerted an important influence, both in the religious sphere as a manual of spiritual elevation which also proposed a new theology in an affective and feminine key and in the court sphere as a work that emphasized the leading role of love and women in Christian history. Isabel participated in the querelle des femmes, returning to the origin of medieval misogyny (Eve) in order to rewrite the history of human redemption by revealing the fundamental roles played by biblical women—Miriam, Virgin Mary, the Magdalene, Martha—and equating their roles with those that queens and court ladies were to play in the government and society of the time.