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2025

At the start of 2025, catching up after a series of set-backs with our website in 2024 through changes in the hosting-service, we offer an update for our activities accomplished in our 2024 Anniversary Year and planned for the Year 2025.

For the former, the Theme was “Bridges”.

For the latter, the Theme is “Thresholds and Communities”.

London, British Museum. Door-sill carved as a carpet. From the North Palace of Ashurbanipal II at Nineveh, Iraq. Photograph (2014) Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP(Glasg), CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons.

To open the year, we introduce the theme at Episode 19 of our series “The Research Group Speaks” (18 January 2025, online). We describe how the activities of the year have come into shape and offer reflections upon the power and potential of Thresholds, Portals, Gateways, and other Liminal Spaces as we construct meeting points for communities during the year’s activities.

The next Episodes are lined up for March and May:

Among our activities for the year, we prepare our Spring and Autumn Symposia, which focus on “Agents and Agencies” when it comes to books.

Other events await, variously in hybrid format or online.

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“Study on a Medieval Bridge” at Amares, Braga District, Portugal. Image by Pedro Nuno Caetano (2019) via Wikimedia Commons via Creative Commons 2.0 Generic.

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News for 2023–2024

April 2024:

Announcement: Grant for 2024 Project
“Between Past and Future”

This new, year-long project focuses upon Special Collections and Teaching for the Liberal Arts, in the interlinked pair of Spring and Autumn Symposia and their follow-up.

For this Project, Research Group Associate Hannah Goeselt (Hannah Goeselt and Hannah Goeselt, Library Assistant) has been appointed the part-time Intern Executive Assistant/Associate.

Congratulations!

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Puente de San Martín: Bridge with reflection over the River Targus, Toledo, Spain.

Toledo, Castilla la Mancha, Spain, Puente de San Martín, view from the north-west. Constructed in the late 14th century over the River Tagus. Photograph (24 May 2017) by Ввласенко/Volodymyr Vlasenko via Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.

News for 2024

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Events for 2023 and 2024

1. First, we gladly announce the

2023 Spring Pre-Symposium/Symposium Booklet Front Cover with photograph of snowdrops flowers rising from the earth.

2023 Spring Pre-Symposium/Symposium Booklet Front Cover.

2. Next, in a nutshell, a Summary of our Activities:

By now, our activities take various forms, online and in-person, after an interval since 2020 of online events only.  Also, we prepare for our 2024 Anniversary Year to celebrate

  • 35 years as an international scholarly society founded in Cambridge, England, and
  • 25 years as a nonprofit Section 501(c)(3) educational organization based in Princeton, New Jersey.

Our events and planning throughout 2023 prepare the ground for the Anniversary celebrations in  2024.  Would you like to join the celebrations?

3. Contributions to our Blogs include report our sponsored conference activities on the one hand, and on the other hand examine manuscripts and related materials.

In 2023, we welcome a new Guest Blogger, Hannah Goeselt, whose blogpost (October 2023) offers a guided tour to a 13th-century medieval manuscript and the online resources for studying it.

Online, In-Person, and Hybrid Events

The first of our in-person activities since 2020 are the 2023 International Congress on Medieval Studies (partly in-person and partly online, like 2024) and the 2024 Spring Symposium at Vassar College (hybrid).  Other events are online.

Save-the-Date Poster for 2024 RGME Spring Symposium at Vassar College.

Preview for 2024

Some of the activities which we plan for 2024:

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Watch this Space!

Save-the-Date Poster for 2024 Anniversary Symposium in Thanks to Jesse Hurlbut. Poster set in RGME Bembino.

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The 2015 Appeal

To round out the Anniversary Year’s events, in December the Princeton Trustees of the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence held a Trustees’ Meeting. We surveyed our Anniversary Year’s accomplishments. It was a stellar year!  We accomplished a wide range of activities, aided by contributions of many kinds. Keen to build upon this momentum, we addressed the plans, building upon them, for the next stages in 2015 and beyond.

In their Appeal Letter December 2014, the Princeton Trustees record the progress of our activities through our 2014 Anniversary and the preparations for the future, as they ask for your help, in funds and in kind. Donations may be tax-deductible, as the Research Group is a nonprofit organization. Moreover, because most of our work, including the running of the organization, fund-raising, and organizing our activities, is accomplished by volunteers, your donations principally foster the activities themselves, not some bulky infrastructure. This ability, among others, makes for a special opportunity in the educational world.

As we look toward the future, we celebrate the many contributions over the years which have sustained and extended our activities.  We hope that you will join us.

There are many ways to aid our mission and participate in our activities, and we welcome your participation.  Please help us with your Contributions & Donations.

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More to Come

We plan further activities.  Please watch this space.

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