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[Posted on 9 September 2024, with updates]

London, British Library, MS Royal 17 E iii, fol. 209r, detail: illustration. Bartholomaeus Angelicus’ De proprietatibus rerum, France (Paris?), 1st quarter of the 15th century.

We launch a new Page in the History of the RGME Website by opening this Corner Kiosk, as a virtual Bulletin Board to share news about projects, conference papers, publications, and other activities by our Associates, Volunteers, Officers, Friends, and others in our community.  Who are we? See:

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Thanks go to Zoey Kambour, our Intern Executive Assistant, for suggestions about this page, its contents, and its approach.

Excited to get started.

As another contribution for our RGME Anniversary Year of 2024, with its Theme of Bridges, this Bulletin Board is designed as building a bridge between individual or group activities and our wider community.

Ronda, Galicia, Spain, Puente Nuevo Bridge. Photograph 14 August 2007 by Mark Gilbert. Image: Judas6000 at English Wikipedia, CC BY 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Punte_Nuevo_Bridge,_Ronda_-_Spain.jpg.

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From our Associate Anna Siebach-Larsen, an annnouncement and a launch:

The Middle English Text Series (METS) Editorial Board is pleased to announce the launch of a new website and digital edition for METS, a project long in the making. Join us to celebrate METS’ next phase with an online launch party on November 1, 3 pm EST. We’ll introduce the site and some of its features, discuss future plans, and laud our collaborators. We look forward to celebrating with you!

Please register here: https://tinyurl.com/4w4df6ec.

We are grateful to our sponsors and partners: University of Rochester’s River Campus Libraries, Rossell Hope Robbins Library, and Department of English; TEAMS; Medieval Institute Publications; and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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First up, from our Associate Laura Morreale, who co-organizes the Medieval Women’s Networks webinars which the RGME co-sponsors for October 17–18 2024 by Zoom.

At Laura’s suggestion, we invite you to consider the competition proposed by the Princeton-based Middle Ages for Educators (MAFE). The Princeton Directors for this initiative are our Associates Helmut Gneuss and Jack Tannous. Some RGME Associates have presented podcasts for this initiative, including Eric White and Pamela Patton, who recorded their podcasts at the Princeton University Library on the same day as our Director.  We warmly applaud this initiative, and look forward to its further work.

Sweet 16 Competition
for Middle Ages for Educators (MAFE)

With the support of a Centennial Grant from the Medieval Academy of America (MAA), the Princeton-based Middle Ages for Educators (MAFE) is sponsoring a bracketed Sweet16 competition to encourage medievalists to create open access resources (OARs) for inclusion and publication on the site.

All Sweet 16 OAR submissions will be assessed by a panel of judges who will choose the top 16 OARs, which will then be entered into a public-facing competition. Voting for the best OAR will take place on social media, with the winner of each pairing advancing to the next round. The top 16 submissions will receive a cash prize, and the 4 semi-finalists will receive an additional cash prize and a travel stipend to present their work, along with the judges, at a round-table at the MAA’s Centennial meeting in Boston in March 2025. The overall winner of the Sweet 16 competition will receive an additional prize of $1,000. Anyone may enter the competition.

Guidelines for creating and submitting OARs are found on the Sweet 16 page of the MAFE site; all submissions are due by October 1, 2024.

We hope this competition will be an exciting opportunity for the medievalists in your community to learn about MAFE, to consider new ways to disseminate knowledge, and to represent your program and all you have to offer to the thousands of people who use MAFE every year.

Please feel free to send me any questions or concerns you might have (as MAFE Project Coordinator) at my personal email, [email protected].

Remember the due date of 1 October 2024 for your submissions.

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London, British Library, MS Royal 17 E iii, fol. 209r, detail: illustration. Bartholomaeus Angelicus’ De proprietatibus rerum, France (Paris?), 1st quarter of the 15th century.

Note on the Image:  On the manuscript, see Royal MS 17 E III, the scholastic author Bartholomaeus Anglicus (before 1203 – 1272), and his widely circulated work De proprietatibus rerum, “On the Properties of Things” (circa 1240), an early forerunner of the modern encyclopedia.

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