A year ago, my friend Alexandra Bellow died: a Romanian mathematician, former wife of Saul Bellow, and an extraordinary woman who was in love with Don Quixote until her very last day. I wrote this small tribute in the days just after her death.
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I'm so sorry, Jim. This is terrible news.
Aquesta setmana / this week!
In vol. 8, no. 2, Lluís Cabré and Jaume Torró (ILCC-U de Girona) reflect on the casuistry of error in the transmission of poetry while emending a number of passages in medieval Catalan verse. DOI: doi.org/10.7275/tl.3...
📢 El pròxim 14 d'abril se celebrarà una sessió de #SLIM.
Jordi Bossoms presentarà «Sobre les malalties agudes: estudi i edició del conjunt d’obres atribuïdes a Arnau de Vilanova basades en el 'Regimen auctorum' d'Hipòcrates».
📅 14.04
⏲️ 18 h
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Isaac Asimov, writing in 1957, was strangely prescient about the debates regarding the impact of AI on intellectual work.
Poster for the 2nd Early Modern Iberian Studies of New England.
Coming up soon...
Poster for talk by Llúcia Martín abut Isabel de Villena at UMass Amherst.
Screenshot of congress website "La literatura en societat als segles XV-XVI: autors, lectors i impremta" (October 22-24, 2026)
CFP: La literatura en societat als segles XV-XVI: autors, lectors i impremta / La literatura en sociedad durante los siglos XV-XVI: autores, lectores e imprenta, Universitat Jaume I de Castelló. Propostes fins el 25 de maig de 2026.
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A cropped photo so as not to show my colleague’s face but in it you see me and another person’s hand holding open the page with Panofsky’s signature.
I’ve always disliked large conferences bc they’re overwhelming. But I go for a number of reasons including my favorite: moments like this one where I found myself w a beloved colleague poring over the Medieval Academy Fellows’ book & squealing w delight as we got to the page w Panofsky’s signature.
Local Organizing Committee of the 101st Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America.
Local Organizing Committee of the 101st Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America.
Jesús Rodríguez Velasco giving his opening plenary.
Elly Truitt giving the Fellows Plenary.
A couple of photos from the 101st Meeting of the MAA. It's been an amazing experience of teamwork that has lasted for months. Kudos to all! My special thanks go to Jen Adams for her leadership and to Jesús Rodríguez Velasco for an outstanding plenary and dedication during the event.
A vitrine with a 15th-century missal open in it. On the wall above is a large infographic showing another opening from the book, which in honor of the patron and scribe we have named the Vernon-Lombard Missal.
In honor of the Medieval Academy of America's conference here, UMass's Special Collections & University Archives has mounted an exhibition, co-curated by Abby Klug & Genny Dorgan (I helped a little), and featuring some of the wonderful work done by students in my manuscripts seminar last year!
CFP: Conditional Emancipation or Emancipatory Restrictions in Medieval Iberian Literature
2027 MLA Annual Convention
LLC Medieval Iberian Forum
Paper proposals due Friday, March 20th
#CFP #medievalsky #medieval #emancipation #MLA #MLA2027 #Iberian #literature
Portada de la traducció catalana de la Fiammetta de Pau Cañigueral.
Biografies de l’autor i el traductor de la traducció catalana de la Fiammetta.
Aquest no sé si posar-lo amb els altres boccaccios o amb les altres traduccions del Pau. Vosaltres com ho feu?
First page of the proofs of the article "The Place of Medieval and Early Modern Literature in Iberian Studies: the Catalan Case"
My first foray into disciplinary reflection coming up soon in this volume: brill.com/display/titl...
New deadline to submit proposals, March 15, 2026.
Vol. 52.2 is now available on Project Muse. Featuring articles by Giles, Talavera Pagán, Udaondo Alegre, Cárdenas-Rotunno, and a special forum on Henry Berlin's "Alone Together: Poetics of the Passions in Late Medieval Iberia." For TOC see lcclacoronica.org/journal/volu... #projectmuse
Job posting for a lecturer position at Harvard Hist & Lit--please share! histlit.fas.harvard.edu/lecturer-pos...
I'm very grateful to Emily C. Francomano, Sol Miguel-Prendes, and @albertlloret.bsky.social for their thoughtful responses to _Alone Together_ in the latest issue of La corónica. It's hard to express the feeling of being read with such sensitivity and critical acumen. I learned a lot about my book!
It was a long-simmering and deepening dismay with what this post describes that motivated me and @cnygren.bsky.social to propose this as one of our four frictions. www.publicbooks.org/four-frictio...
Pésimo título, que no os distraiga. Un poco escrito a lo Isabel Gómez Melenchón.
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Cover of Convent Wisdom, by Ana Garriga and Carmen Urbita. In the cover an ecstatic 16th-century nun checks her cell phone.
Page 4 of the preface to Convent Wisdom.
I see that it just appeared in Spanish. But the English version is very much true to their podcast: 21st-Century Baroque prose full of sassy pop twists.
Digital Philology Vol. 14, No. 2 (2025) muse.jhu.edu/issue/56242 #openaccess @projectmuse.bsky.social @hopkinspress.bsky.social Unlikening Translation: Words, Sounds, Events, Things @lauramorreale.bsky.social @byzcapp.bsky.social @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy
Rellegint Homenots 2a sèrie més de 20 anys després, em sorprenen aquestes col·laboracions generoses i profitoses gràcies a compromisos polítics o ideològics per interessos comuns (Coromines estudiant amb Menéndez Pidal; F.B. Moll treballant amb mossèn Alcover).
Josep Pla on the publication of the first volume of the diccionari Alcover-Moll.
Josep Pla on the publication of the first volume of the diccionari Alcover-Moll.
Muntar una impremta per publicar un diccionari. Muntar una empresa per finançar-ne la impressió.
Coming to a bookstore near you this summer! Thanks to everyone who made this possible. [Link in comments 👇]
"In this essay I will"
- spoilers
- over-confident
- rigid, boring
"In this essay I *might*"
- creates suspense
- nonchalant
- adventurous, fun
First page of Álvarez Gómez's edition of Vicent Mariner's 1639 translation of Gorgias's _Encomium of Helen_.
In the first article of vol. 8 (2026), Daniel Álvarez Gómez (U Europaea, Andorra) edits and studies Vicent Mariner's 1639 translation into Latin of Gorgias's _Encomium of Helen_ . doi.org/10.7275/tl.3...
Miquel Joseph i Mayol fue un impresor y exiliado catalán que publicó un interesante manual de Com es fa un llibre: Diccionari de les arts gràfiques (1979) que incluye un amplio vocabulario técnico en catalán. Resuelve dudas como 'Cuántas letras entran en una línea de composición'