Episode 17. “RGME Retrospect and Prospects: Anniversary Reflections”
April 30, 2024 in Interviews, Manuscript Studies, Research Group Episodes for The Research Group Speaks, Research Group Speaks (The Series)
Episode 17 (Saturday 21 September 2024)
“RGME Retrospect and Prospects:
Anniversary Reflections”
[Posted on 30 April 2024, with updates]
This Episode in our online series The Research Group Speaks” offers Anniversary Reflections for the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence, as we draw on highlights of our history, reflect on memories and people, and bring forth observations from living memory.
Florence, Italy, Ponte Vecchio from Ponte alle Grazie. Photo: Ingo Mehling, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
In keeping with the Theme of our Anniversary Year, Bridges, this Episode gives the opportunity to share recollections, with series of comments in a roundtable conversation.
Subjects include recollections of people, events, and landmarks in the history and legacy of the RGME as we celebrate our heritage and achievements during the 2024 Anniversary Year and beyond. For example, we wish to bring forth the memories preserved in Oral Tradition, with their stories to tell and people’s memories to preserve and share.
James Marrow and Giles Constable at the Meeting of the Honorary Trustees of the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence, 13 December 2013 Photography by Mildred Budny
In Memoriam
People to remember include
- our Trustee Vivien Law
- our Honorary Trustee Giles Constable
- our Associates
C. Patrick Wormald
Roger E. Reynolds
Elizabeth (“Peggy”) A.E. Brown - and others.
Would you like to suggest more names as memorials?
Survey Questions as Recollections, Souvenirs, and Records
In preparation, we would circulate a survey asking people if they would like
- to propose ideas beforehand for an open discussion, such as recollections of particular events and/or people in our history;
- to share some reflections or comments in the roundtable; and
- to make suggestions.
Also, might you have some souvenirs or photographs from RGME events that you would like to share with the audience of the Episode and/or with the RGME Library & Archives? We would be glad to see them.
We encourage you to join the conversation and celebrations.
Awards
Would you like to propose someone for an Award for contributions to the RGME? Please let us know your nominations, with a description of the reasons for them.
A delightful pair of Awards, both earnest and lighthearted, with an Award Ceremony, can be seen in the Certificates or ‘Diplomas’ which our late Associate, James P. Heidere, displayed by turns on the walls of his dental office and his kitchen at home.
James Heidere with his RGME Associate’s ‘Diploma’
See Heidere: Diplomas and Investiture (2002).
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Continuing our series of interviews and reports, we explore the processes by which Mildred Budny’s 2-volume Insular, Angl0-Saxon, and Early Anglo-Norman Manuscript Art at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge: An Illustrated Catalogue (“The Catalogue” or “The Illustrated Catalogue”) was designed, laid out, and typeset to camera-ready copy for its publication as a set of 2 volumes of “Text” and “Plates”.
