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Memoirs

July 23, 2024 in Announcements, Bembino, Manuscript Studies, Memoirs, Research Group Speaks (The Series), RGME Recollections, RGME Symposia, Seminars on Manuscript Evidence

Remembering
Those Who Have Gone Before

[Posted on 22 July 2024]

In our 2025 Anniversary Year, the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence reflects on people who have gone before us and whom we wish to recollect as companions or mentors, advisers, colleagues, and friends contributing to the origins, history, and growth of our organization across the years.

Part of that process has yielded the formation of our own nonprofit educational publishing house.  Our books and booklets in printed form and digital formats include Memoirs, to which we add this year.

1. Oleg Andreevich Grabar

The first of these Memoirs appeared quietly in 2015 as a 4-page booklet.  It offers a Memorial for Oleg Grabar, art historian and archaeologist:

In Memory of
Oleg Andreevich Grabar
[Олег Андреевич Грабар]
(3 November 1929 – 8 January 2011)

Composed by Leonid A. Beliaev, the text was published first in Russian. By request, it was translated from the Russian into English, set in multi-lingual RGME Bembino, provided with a photograph by permission, and laid out as a booklet corresponding with our RGME Style Manifesto.

Although Oleg did not participate in RGME activities, he generously gave advice for our research over several years while our Director worked as a part-time research assistant for his colleague Giles Constable (see below).  The translation and publication of the English version of the Memoir in Russian were carried out for its author, an RGME Associate, at the request and with the assistance of a long-term supporter and advisor of the RGME.  Note that the RGME font Bembino supports the Cyrillic font appropriate for portions of the text of the published Memoir.

The booklet can freely be downloaded:

  • Memorial for Oleg Grabar.

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2. Vivien Anne Law

For our blog on Manuscript Studies, in 2014 our Director, Mildred Budny, provided a blogpost called Memorials.  Principally it shares recollections of friend, colleague, and long-time RGME participant (first as Associate of our international scholarly organization in England and then as Trustee of our non-profit corporation), Vivien Anne Law (1954–2002). This forms part of a larger report or Memoir responding, in part, to the opportunity to examine and advise on Vivien’s archives in late 2005 at the request of her widower, Sir Nicholas Shackleton (1937–2006).

Our Director’s paper for our 2002 Colloquium at the British Museum in London in March (a month after Vivien’s death) is dedicated to her memory, as well as that of another, dear, friend and mentor.

  • 2002 Colloquium on “Shaping Understanding: Form and Order in the Anglo-Saxon World (400–1100)”.
Vivien Law in her Garden in Cambridge, England,June 1996 Photograph © Mildred Budny

Vivien Law in her Cambridge Garden in June 1996 (Photograph © Mildred Budny)

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3. Giles Constable

Also for our blog Manuscript Studies, this year we posted a set of recollections about of Giles Constable (1 June 1929 — 17 January 2021), friend, colleague, mentor, and RGME Associate and Honorary Trustee.  These recollections do not comprise an obituary as such, because Giles often and firmly expressed his wish for no such thing, nor any Memorial Service or Festschrift for him in his honor.

Instead, after an interval of mourning, we record appreciation for his contributions as a presence and guiding force for our organization since its early years in the United States, following the move of our principal base from the United Kingdom to Princeton, New Jersey, in October of 1994.

  • Recollections for the 2024 RGME Anniversary Year, Part 1. Giles Constable.
Giles Constable reading in his office at the Institute for Advanced Studies. Photograph by Mildred Budny.

Giles Constable reading in his office at the Institute for Advanced Studies. Photograph by Mildred Budny.

Also, his generous encouragement of our work for manuscript studies by long-term loans or gifts made it possible closely to examine, over time, groups of original specimens of medieval manuscripts, manuscript fragments, documents, seals in metal or wax, early printed materials, bindings, and associated records.  The work included conservation, photography, research, seminars, display, and publication in our blog and other forms.

Discoveries abounded, and found expression in those publications as well as in various of our RGME events. For example:

  • 2014 Seminar on Manuscripts and Their Photographs, held at the Index of Christian Art of Princeton University in its Seminar Room.

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5. Patrick Wormald

Now, in preparation for our Episode 17. “RGME Retrospect and Prospects: Anniversary Reflections” in September 2024, our RGME Associate and Trustee David Ganz offers a Memoir of our RGME Associate Patrick Wormald (1947–2004).

Coffee Break at the 2002 British Museum Colloquium.

Patrick Wormald at the 2002 Colloquium

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In Memoriam

See also RGME Officers, Associates, and Volunteers: In Memoriam.

Another Memoir composed by our Director in booklet format, published in a limited edition:

  • “The Guessing Game:  A Memoir of My Uncle Bob, Robert Roger McEwan (1918‒2007)” (Princeton, New Jersey:  Milly Budny Designs, 2017)

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Others?

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Episode 17 of “The Research Group Speaks”

As part of our anniversary celebrations, the RGME prepares an Episode in our online series “The Research Group Speaks” to consider our past, present, and future.

  • Episode 17. “RGME Retrospect and Prospects: Anniversary Reflections”

It will, for example, offer recollections of people who have loomed large in our history, and whom we remember with affection, admiration, and gratitude.  Among them are Giles Constable, Vivien Law, and Patrick Wormald (see above).  Please join us.

To register:

  • Episode 17. Retrospect and Prospects: Anniversary Reflections
    Saturday 21 September 2024, 1:00–2:30 EDT (GMT-4) online via Zoom

See you there?

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Recollections for the 2024 RGME Anniversary, Part 1: Giles Constable

May 20, 2024 in Anniversary, Manuscript Studies, Research Group Episodes for The Research Group Speaks, RGME Recollections

2024 RGME Anniversary Recollections
Part 1

Giles Constable

[Posted on 20 May 2024, with updates]

During this 2024 Anniversary Year for the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence (RGME), with our year’s theme of Bridges, we gather recollections and tributes for people who have contributed to our formation, history, progress, legacy, and the pursuit of our mission across the years. This year, we celebrate

  • 25 years as a nonprofit educational organization incorporated in Princeton, New Jersey, and
  • 35 years as an international scholarly organization founded as part of a major research project on “Anglo-Saxon and Related Manuscripts” at The Parker Library of Corpus Christi College in the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom.

As part of our anniversary celebrations, the RGME prepares an Episode in our online series “The Research Group Speaks” to consider

  • Episode 17. “RGME Retrospect and Prospects: Anniversary Reflections”

To register:

  • Episode 17. Retrospect and Prospects: Anniversary Reflections
    Saturday 21 September 2024, 1:00–2:30 EDT (GMT-4) online via Zoom

We begin a series of Anniversary Reflections in our blog on Manuscript Studies by focusing upon a RGME Associate, Honorary Trustee, Mentor, and Friend whose advice and encouragement loomed larger than life in the course of our organization and its journey across time. Mildred Budny contributes this set of reflections, illustrated with some photographs.

Anniversary Reflections, Part 1:
Giles Constable, Honorary Trustee and Mentor

With admiration, I describe some recollections of Giles Constable (1 June 1929 — 17 January 2021), our long-time Associate, Honorary Trustee, colleague, mentor, and friend.

Giles Reading at the Window in his Office at the IAS. Spring 2014. Photography Mildred Budny.

Giles Reading at the Window in his Office at the IAS. Spring 2014. Photography Mildred Budny.

Achievements

Giles’s achievements are many. Institutions to which he belonged, and to which he contributed, record the structure and components of his scholarly and administrative activities. For example, in these accounts:

  • Brief CV and Bibliography
  • Complete List of Publications
  • Past Professor
  • In Memoriam: Giles Constable
  • Oral History Project: Giles Constable

With the A. B. (1950) and Ph. D. (1957) from Harvard University, Giles taught at the University of Iowa (1955 to 1958) and at Harvard (1958 to 1984), for which he served as Director of the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library in Washington, D. C.  At the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, he was Medieval History Professor in the School of Historical Studies (1985 to 2003) and then Professor Emeritus until his death.

His participation in the life of his family, as brother, husband, in-law, father, and grandfather belongs among his merits.  He enriched the lives of many colleagues, students, and friends by words, advice, encouragement, and example.

Some of his former students are Research Group Trustees and Associates, and their descriptions of him over the years have been moving and inspiring.

Here we begin to gather some of these recollections.  Their gathering began with our report of Giles’s passing on the day itself, in a posting on our Research Group Facebook Page.

Colleague, Mentor, and Friend

Some photographs from our RGME Archive record moments in our collaboration.  Above, we see Giles still at work, reading, in his post-retirement office at the Institute for Advanced Study.  The photograph made its debut in public on our Facebook Page, on 17 January 2021.

About that photograph, our Associate Karl F. Morrison observed:

Thank you very much for capturing this image of Giles, no doubt in the act of reading something for somebody else.  It reminded me that, for Giles, the center always held, and his gifts of mind and heart for encouraging companions on the way were the same as the definition of infinity:  the center was everywhere and the borders nowhere.

We offer some other images, from other occasions.

As Honorary Trustee of the Research Group

Regularly, Giles hosted annual meetings of the Princeton Trustees of the RGME, after the first such meeting hosted by James Marrow, Honorary Trustee.

Giles Constable and James Marrow at the Meeting of the Honorary Trustees of the Research Group on 13 December 2013. Photography Mildred Budny.

Giles Constable and James Marrow at the Meeting of the Honorary Trustees of the Research Group on 13 December 2013. Photography Mildred Budny.

These meetings gathered Trustees and Honorary Trustees resident in Princeton, including Giles, James, Mildred Budny, and Adelaide Bennett.

Giles Constable and Adelaide Bennett at the 2016 RGME Symposium. Photograph by Mildred Budny.

Giles Constable and Adelaide Bennett at the 2016 RGME Symposium. Photograph by Mildred Budny.

As Contributor to our Symposia, Colloquia, Seminars, and Workshops

At the 2002 British Museum Colloquium

Coffee Break at our 2002 British Museum Colloquium. Our Director, Dáibhí Ó Cróinin, and Giles Constable. Photograph by our Associate, Geoffrey R. Russom.

Coffee Break at our 2002 British Museum Colloquium. Our Director, Dáibhí Ó Cróinin, and Giles Constable. Photograph by our Associate, Geoffrey R. Russom.

At the 2002 ‘Investiture’ of our Associate, James P. Heidere

The 'Investiture' of our Research Group Associate, James P. Heidere, by Roger Reynolds and Giles Constable.

The ‘Investiture’ of our Research Group Associate, James P. Heidere, by Roger Reynolds and Giles Constable.

See also, among others, the 2014 Seminar on Manuscripts and Photography.

As Mentor, Colleague, and Friend

In his IAS office, with Alison Beach (2014)

Giles Constable with Alison Beach at his office in Spring 2014. Photography Mildred Budny.

Giles Constable with Alison Beach at his office in Spring 2014. Photography Mildred Budny.

About this photograph, Alison — who had been Postdoctoral Research Assistant to Professor Giles Constable during the period 1998—2000 — commented:

[The photograph shows me] With Giles at the Institute for Advanced Study consulting about the translation of the Chronicle of Petershausen in 2014. Giles encouraged Sam [Sutherland], Shannon [Li], and me to push on with and publish the translation.  What a privilege it was. . . . he seemed immortal to me.

Mildred Budny, author of this post, offered remarks about Giles’s mentorship for her and the RGME over years after the RGME moved its principal base to Princeton and became incorporated as a nonprofit educational organization, in her contribution to a Roundtable co-sponsored by the RGME at the 2024 International Congress on Medieval Studies. (See 2024 International Congress on Medieval Studies: Report.)

More recollections will form part of the program for Episode 17 of “The Research Group Speaks” on 21 September 2024. Please let us know if you wish to participate.

  • Episode 17. “RGME Retrospect and Prospects: Anniversary Reflections”

To register:

  • Episode 17. Retrospect and Prospects: Anniversary Reflections
    Saturday 21 September 2024, 1:00–2:30 EDT (GMT-4) online via Zoom

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In Giles’s Honor

A fund for the Research Group has been established to honor Giles Constable: The Constable Fund. See

  • Contributions and Donations
  • 2024 Anniversary Appeal

Do you have recollections, souvenirs, and photographs of Giles Constable that you would like to share?

Please, if you wish,

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  • join our Episode 17. “RGME Retrospect and Prospects: Anniversary Reflections”
    To register:
    Episode 17. Retrospect and Prospects: Anniversary Reflections
    Saturday 21 September 2024, 1:00–2:30 EDT (GMT-4) online via Zoom

We look forward to hearing from you.

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Update (12 August 2024):  Now see Part 2.

  • Patrick Wormald (1947-2004): A Memoir by David Ganz

Introduced by a blogpost, this Memoir appears as an 8-page Booklet published by the RGME.

See also the varied series of recollections and memoirs in various formats, digital and printed:

  • Memoirs.

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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 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

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

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

  1. to propose ideas beforehand for an open discussion, such as recollections of particular events and/or people in our history;
  2. to share some reflections or comments in the roundtable; and
  3. 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' with Photography by Mildred Budny

James Heidere with his RGME Associate’s ‘Diploma’

See Heidere: Diplomas and Investiture (2002).

Information about our Episode 17:

  • Episode 17. “RGME Retrospect and Prospects: Anniversary Reflections”.

For this event, we celebrate RGME history, impact, and potential.

Register for the Episode:

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2001 Inaugural Workshop on “The Dating Service or the Dating Game?”

January 1, 2014 in Conference Announcement, Events

An Inaugural Workshop for a New Series

Poster for 2001 Workshop on 'The Dating Service or the Dating Game' on 3 November 2001 at The College of New Jersey, Ewing, New Jersey

2001 Workshop Poster

Since 2001, the Research Group has jointly sponsored various forms of scholarly meetings, including Workshops, Colloquia, and Symposia, co-organized by Mildred Budny and held at various centers in the United States and elsewhere. Our earlier events are reported here:

  • History
  • Events
  • Seminars on the Evidence of Manuscripts (1990‒1995)
  • Congress Sessions (1993‒1995 and 2004‒)
  • Annual Symposia on the Transmission of the Bible (1995‒2000).

Soon after completing the process of its incorporation as a nonprofit educational organization in 1999, and its official Recognition as such by the Internal Revenue Service, the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence resumed its organization of scholarly events with an “Inaugural and Celebratory Workshop” held at The College of New Jersey.  Over time, as these resumed Events gathered momentum, they came to be called

  • The New Series.

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