Albert Lloret

YouTube video by Olot Televisió Mac Exprés: Edició 18 juliol 2025

In June, while gathered @ the Medieval Modernities seminar in Olot, we visited the Arxiu Comarcal de la Garrotxa.The local TV station wanted to know what had brought us there & what it was like to study & teach medieval Catalan culture & its modern legacies in the US. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmAc...

CFP - Survival, Resistance, Rebirth - 20th International Colloquium of the North American Catalan Society, SUNY at Buffalo, April 16-18, 2026. Paper and panel proposals due by 10/15/2025

CFP - Survival, Resistance, Rebirth - 20th International Colloquium of the North American Catalan Society, The State University of New York at Buffalo, April 16-18, 2026. Paper and panel proposals due by 10/15/2025 @berlihe.bsky.social

Cover of Josep Pla’s Coses vistes

Wildly sensorial fragment on an afternoon’s light, smell, feelings.

#JosepPla

Coberta de Maria Antonieta, d’Stefan Zweig, Traduïda per Ramon Farrés.

Sobre el lleure de Maria Antonieta.

Sobre el lleure de Maria Antonieta

Sobre el lleure de Maria Antonieta

Obre-la per la pàgina que vulguis. Traducció de pedra picada. Registre, lèxic, fluïdesa. #RamonFarrés, #StefanZweig.

cover image for MLN's Hispanic issue

Coming soon! Edited by @becquer.bsky.social + a dossier on Catalan studies edited by Anna Casas Aguilar, Maria Dasca, @albertlloret.bsky.social, and Olga Sendra Ferrer. Managing editor @victoriajane.bsky.social Assistant Editor Lauren Reynolds.
Cover: SON RAVAL © Consuelo Bautista. 2013.

Amazing! Any information on ownership?

a picture of me holding an octavo from the 17th century — soledades de buçaco by bernarda ferreira de lacerda — with the spine cradled by the palm of my hand while my fingers lightly catch the leaning covers and pages to reveal roughly where the book “wants” to open.

where do the pages fall open when you prop a book lightly? this precious copy of Soledades de Buçaco at the National Library of Portugal has a “desire part” on romance X — a poetic rendering of discalced carmelite monastery life. the pages are also more translucent. #FLAD #BNP #FLADBNPfellowship

Proofs of forthcoming MLN article "Lyric, Space, Presence" by Albert Lloret.

Correcting proofs: space, presence, and lyrics from the Catalan Baroque.

The essay belongs to a dossier on "New Spatialities in Catalan Studies", forthcoming in @mlnjournal.bsky.social, which I have coedited with Anna Casas Aguilar, Maria Dasca, and Olga Sendra. Stay tuned!

Popular songs in Castilian were all the rage. The split between speaking Catalan en famille and writing in Castilian for public affairs was sharper and more complete. Never was Catalan as close to being abandoned as it was in the early nineteenth century? Language abandonment is precisely what happened in Ireland during the nineteenth century, particularly after the famine of 1848 and the waves of outmigration that followed, to the point that at present only 1 percent of the population speaks Irish. The Irish have not lost their sense of national identity, however, because nationalism does not depend on language distinction.

[On the Ciutadella]: "This was not a defensive structure but rather a garrison built to intimidate urban subjects." (p. 49)

"Caresmar's assumption was that antiquity is in itself legitimating when in fact the supposedly oldest royal privileges to ecclesiastical establishments are those most likely to be forgeries or to have been interpolated." (p. 44)

"Peninsular historiography has always involved attempts to assert or dispute the fundamental unity of Spain." (p. 41)

"The impetus for a scientific (in the sense of impartial and meticulous) analysis of historical sources came not from Enlightenment secular rationalism but from techniques of investigating church history, beginning with efforts to judge the origins and reliability of saints' legends." (p. 37)

Cover of Paul Freedman's "The Splendor and Opulence of the Past: Studying the Middle Ages in Enlightenment Catalonia". Cardona's castle among the fog below the title.

Rereading my notes on this amazing book and finding passages like these:

Accepting proposals until June 10.

INTRODUCTION

Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines?

Jevin West (@jevinwest.bsky.social) and I have spent the last eight months developing the course on large language models (LLMs) that we think every college freshman needs to take.

thebullshitmachines.com

Portada de les Metamorfosis d’Ovidi. Fulla de llorer.

Llista de mites que entraven a l’examen i les pàgines on començaven.

Tall del llibre amb símptomes de desgast per haver estat consultat sovint.

Llatí de primer de primer carrera. Troncal de filologies. Anual. A més de traduir, examen de mites segons la versió de les Metamorfosis. Anava identificant on començava el mite mentre llegia per repassar per a l’Examen.

Front Cover: The Latin verse summary of the Thebaid in Book V of Troilus and Criseyde. San Marino, Huntington Library, MS HM 114, f. 312r

New issue of Digital Philology: A Journal of Medieval Cultures Vol. 14, No. 1 (2025) muse.jhu.edu/issue/54736 @projectmuse.bsky.social @hopkinspress.bsky.social Big Data & Manuscript Studies: Some Reflections on a Methodology @leoba.bsky.social @danielsawyer.bsky.social @julialilinoe.bsky.social

@lusomedieval.bsky.social, would you happen to have any leads?

if anyone has tips about short-term rent in Lisbon, anything that may help a grad student who’ll be getting by on a low fellowship stipend, it’ll be most welcome :) (still deciding whether to go in the summer or beginning of fall – or even mid-December, a less likely option but still an option)

It’s all your merit. Well deserved! Congrats!

My department (Spanish and Portuguese @ CU Boulder) is hiring an Assistant Teaching Professor/Continuing Ed Liaison -- super quick turn around because you know how sometimes those things go.
Deadline to apply May 8, 2025

What's the most brutal insult you've ever heard in your language? I think the most savagely specific one that I've ever encountered was from Finnish... sun gradu oli varmaan 20 sivua. It means "your thesis was probably 20 pages long"

Raül Garrigasait: "Amb la gent que conserva una mirada alegre te n'aniries a la fi del món" Escriptor. Publica 'La roca i l'aire'

S'entaulen @jordinopca.bsky.social i @rgsait.bsky.social i en surt una conversa interessantíssima amb perles com ara:

"Auden té una frase que diu: 'El perill de l'art és que el confonguem amb la màgia'"

"Jesús està dient que ve a destruir la família".

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Yet I have long believed that analogy, with its tendency to transfer insights from one domain to another without demonstrating the validity of the transference, is not a useful historiographical method. Precisely because analogy promises so much more than it delivers, both conceptually and theoretically, it is more often than not a weak instrument of historical thinking, generating similarities where comparisons and contrasts are more apt and, in its tendency to slip into genealogy, arguing on behalf of false continuities and/or legacies. Linguistically and rhetorically, analogy is akin to metaphor in that, like metaphor, it promotes a whole/whole substitution that decontextualizes both parts of the equation and leaves little room for the kind of interpretive operations that properly govern historical investigation. When we indulge in analogies, either by operationalizing them ourselves, as in the case of claiming the relevance of the Inquisition and invoking the Crusades, or by reifying such analogies, as in the work of the neomedievalists, we open the way for a kind of thinking that becomes self-validating and thereby resists criticism.

Analogy is a weak instrument of historical thinking.

Metahistory at its best in a 2008 essay by Gabrielle Spiegel.

www.historians.org/perspectives...

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Sonja Drimmer on generative AI Sonja Drimmer on the empty rhetoric used to promote generative AI as an art-historical research tool for this episode of “Under the Cover."

For the April episode of “Under the Cover,” Artforum Editor in Chief @tinariversryan.bsky.social interviews @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social about how a medievalist became interested in AI, the role of AI in the divestment from public and higher education, and more. www.artforum.com/video/sonja-...

Contra l'espoli d'obres, la precarització laboral, l'empobriment de la llengua, la robotització del pensament i les pràctiques opaques per enriquir uns pocs, reivindiquem una traducció humana, sensible i conscient. Els lectors no mereixen altra cosa.

Calendar of events sponsored by La corónica at ICMS 2025

2025 ICMS is fast approaching. La corónica is sponsoring several events of interest. #Kzoo2025 Please join us!

Modernitats Medievals Program, June 12-15, Faber Residency, in Olot Catalonia

9:15 - Benvinguda de Noel Blanco Mourelle i Albert Lloret 9:20 - Daniela Gutiérrez Flores (University of California, Davis), “La política de la cuina: la creació de la cuina moderna al Llibre del Coch” 11:00 - Visita a l’Arxiu Comarcal de la Garrotxa 16:00 - Paulina León (New York University), “Miquel Parets i la política de les cures a la Barcelona del segle XVII” 17:00 - Noel Blanco Mourelle (University of Chicago), “Ramon Llull: pensament en moviment”

Dissabte, 14 de juny 10:00 - Núria Silleras-Fernández (University of Colorado, Boulder), “Contra Pompeu Fabra: Miret i Sans i una celestina de la Barcelona del segle XV” 11:00 - Montserrat Piera (Temple University), “Les interpretacions de Tirant lo Blanc com a clàssic medieval: modernitat incipient o tirania del romanticisme aburgesat i anacrònic?” 12:15 - Simón A. Villegas (University of Massachusetts Amherst), “Historitzar el personatge literari del moro: límits, problems i futurs de la maurofília als estudis ibèrics de la primera edat moderna” 16:00 - Visita al Monestir de Santa Maria de Ripoll Diumenge, 15 de juny 10:00 - Henry Berlin (University at Buffalo), “La ‘Cobla de dos senys’ de Corella: El plaer, el dol i la forma poética”” 11:00 - Albert Lloret (University of Massachusetts Amherst), “Espai, lírica i presència”

@mourelle.bsky.social and I have been busy organizing this three-day seminar, which will take place at the FaberLlull Residency in Olot (Catalonia), from June 12-15. If you happen to be nearby and would like to come listen to us or say hi, do let us know!

faberllull.cat/en/residenci...