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The Research Group on Manuscript Evidence prepares an Inaugural Sponsored Session at the International Medieval Congress<\/a> (IMC), University of Leeds, United Kingdom, to be held in hybrid format from 1st \u2013 4th July, 2024. This Session would comprise our first Sponsored Session at the Congress.<\/p>\n In December, we learned that the proposed Session has been accepted. Here we describe the plan.<\/p>\n Also, now that the Congress schedule has been posted \u2014 see IMC 2024 Programme<\/a> \u2014 we announce details of our Inaugural Session, scheduled for the first day of the Congress (1 July).<\/p>\n The Congress subject for 2024 is \u201cCrisis\u201d<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n The RGME Theme for its Anniversary Year of 2024 is \u201cBridges\u201d<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n For the 2024 ICMS at Leeds we examine subjects pertaining to the challenges and opportunities of \u201c<\/strong>Building Bridges ‘Over Troubled Waters’ \u201d<\/strong>.\u00a0 Responses to our Call for Proposals for this Session yielded a strong program with varied subjects from multiple perspectives far and near across time and place. This Session joins our events celebrating the Anniversary Year for the RGME.<\/p>\n In 2024 the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence (RGME) celebrates its 25th Anniversary as a Nonprofit Educational Corporation based in the United States and its 35th Anniversary as an International Scholarly Organization founded in England.<\/p>\n To mark our anniversary year, we prepare sponsored Sessions, as usual, for the International Congress on Medieval Studies<\/a> (ICMS) at Kalamazoo in May.\u00a0 See our Call for Papers for the 2024 ICMS<\/a> and now the 2024 International Congress on Medieval Studies: Program<\/a>.<\/p>\n Also, for the first time, we prepare an Inaugural RGME-sponsored Session for the International Medieval Congress<\/a> (IMC) at Leeds in July 2024. Our dedicated Co-Organizers for this new ‘venture’ as an Inaugural Session on our Anniversary bring a rich range of perspectives and interests sprouting from distant lands, different subjects, multiple waterways or paths of communication, and varied cultural endeavours, from poetry to correspondence, and voyagers’ routes using and forming bridges both tangibly and intangibly.<\/p>\n Our Co-Organizers hail from different traditions and upbringings, varied geographical locations (more than one, different continents included), and multi-lingual perspectives.\u00a0 Meet the Co-Organizers, whom we earnestly thank for skillfully shaping this event:<\/p>\n With awareness of distances which may be involved, we contemplate a view toward the waters, with thanks to our Co-Organizer for the photograph and permission to include it here as an evocative emblem from sometimes-distant shores.<\/p>\n Cape Point, Cape of Good Hope. Photograph \u00a9 12.2022 Ann Pascoe van Zyl.<\/p><\/div>\n The chosen \u201cThematic Focus\u201d for the Leeds Congress in 2024 is \u201cCrisis\u201d<\/a>.\u00a0 It stands the tradition of varied Themes for the Leeds Congress since its foundation<\/a>.\u00a0 The Congress website describes many ways in which this theme might be viewed and explored.<\/p>\n Given the Theme for the 2024 Congress at Leeds and our Theme for our 2024 Anniversary Year, it seemed natural to contemplate processes which, when called for, might create a Bridge Over Troubled Water<\/a> in some form or other.\u00a0 Repeating the results \u2014 in one or other form, as required or possible \u2014 might amount to a habit.<\/p>\n That thought reminded us of some practices and habits of the RGME over the years.\u00a0 And so, the title for the session came into existence, and could form a rallying call or sorts for the plan of its approach.<\/p>\n Call it a ‘bridge’ in response to the call for the 2024 Congress to consider the natures of ‘crisis’ of various kinds, medieval and more, as a focus subject for discussion.<\/p>\n With bridges both literal and metaphorical in mind, we thought of the Ark as a response or safe haven.\u00a0 Some medieval images of Noah’s Ark<\/a>, its inhabitants, and its provident storage of provisions, come to mind.\u00a0 For example, in an illustration enclosed within an ornamental architectural frame, itself set ‘at sea’ or afloat within a broad outer frame of the expansive margins of the manuscript leaf:<\/p>\n Paris, Biblioth\u00e8que nationale de France, D\u00e9partement des Manuscrits, Latin MS 10525, folio 3v. Image Public Domain via https:\/\/gallica.bnf.fr\/ark:\/12148.\/btv1b8447877n.r=psautier+dit+de+saint+louis.langFR.<\/p><\/div>\n Note on the Image<\/em><\/p>\n Paris, Biblioth\u00e8que nationale de France, D\u00e9partement des Manuscrits, Latin MS 10525, folio 3v.<\/p>\n “Psalter of Saint Louis”, formerly owned by Louis IX<\/a> (1214-1270), King of France. The Research Group on Manuscript Evidence (RGME) came into existence in 1989 from a major Research Project at the Parker Library of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.\u00a0 It moved to the USA in 1994 and became a nonprofit educational corporation based in Princeton in 1999.<\/p>\n Under our guiding concept of Bridges for our 2024 Anniversary Year<\/a>, the RGME offers a Session on bridges and bridge-related topics<\/strong>, specifically as relating to crises<\/strong>. We consider ‘bridges’ both literally, as physical architectures and landmarks (such as historically significant specimens), and abstractly, as architectural devices of the mind that enable us to make unexpected, unpredicted, and sometimes serendipitous connections between marginal, off-field, divergent media, methods, and subjects sometimes ignored in such contexts.<\/p>\n Moreover, we examine how bridges answer to different forms of crises<\/strong>, especially, but not only, with regard to communication, travel, social, cultural or political relations, and the natural environment. In turn, we also consider how establishing and maintaining bridges may prevent crises or, contrarily, cause new unforeseen forms of crisis.<\/p>\n Our session welcomes all bold bridge-makers willing to traverse pathways that others might have not dared to take. \u00a0Our subjects are:<\/p>\n 1) Old English Psalms as a metaphorical bridge between crisis in the locus horribilis<\/em> to peace in the locus amoenus<\/em><\/a>,<\/p>\n 2) Mercantile Venetian responses to blockages to trade-routes,<\/p>\n 3) Dangers of bridges, especially Devil\u2019s Bridges<\/a> and Robber\u2019s Bridge<\/a>, as pilgrims\u2019 routes, with digital visualizations and reference to contemporary discourse on safety,<\/p>\n 4) a Response to these cases, along with a zreflection on the RGME\u2019s tradition of building bridges through \u2018crises\u2019 in its passage across time to its anniversary with a session at the IMC.<\/p>\n Thus, we respond to opportunities and challenges which the captain and officers on the bridge of a ship<\/strong> might observe directly, better to steer a course forward.<\/p>\n We invite you to join us on the voyage.<\/p>\n Paris, Biblioth\u00e8que nationale de France, Depart\u00e9ment des Manuscrits, Latin MS 10525, folio 3v. Image Public Domain via https:\/\/gallica.bnf.fr\/ark:\/12148.<\/p><\/div>\n *****<\/p>\n With the publication of the IMC 2024 Programme<\/a>, we announce the Programme of our Inaugural Session.<\/p>\n Session 129 (page 71 in the IMC 2024 Programme<\/a>)<\/p>\n Organisers: Moderator: <\/strong> Respondent: David Porreca<\/strong>, Department of Classics, University of Waterloo, Ontario<\/p>\n 129-a<\/em>: Ann Pascoe-van Zyl<\/strong>, School of English, Trinity College Dublin<\/p>\n “The Imagery of the Old English Psalms of the Paris Psalter<\/a>:\u00a0 A Abstract<\/a><\/p>\n 129-b<\/em>: Eleanor Congdon<\/strong>, Department of History, Youngstown State University, Abstract<\/a><\/p>\n 129-c<\/em>: Michael Allman Conrad<\/strong>, Kontextstudium, Universit\u00e4t St Gallen Abstract<\/a><\/p>\n Update (20 August 2024)<\/em>: Michael has kindly provided a list of selected bibliography on the subject.\u00a0 We offer it for download:<\/p>\n “129-d<\/em>“: David Porreca<\/strong>, Department of Classics, University of Waterloo, Ontario<\/p>\n Paris, Biblioth\u00e8que nationale de France, D\u00e9partement des Manuscrits, MS Latin 8824, folio 1r, midsection with illustration. Image Public Domain via https:\/\/gallica.bnf.fr\/ark:\/12148\/btv1b8451636f\/f11.item#.<\/p><\/div>\n *****<\/p>\n RGME @ 2024 IMC at Leeds: Poster 2 set in RGME Bembino, with border.<\/p><\/div>\n RGME @ 2024 IMC at Leeds: Poster 1, set in RGME Bembino.<\/p><\/div>\n The Posters (in A4 format) can be downloaded.<\/p>\n For this Congress, we provide a brief introduction to the RGME, with some links, in thanks for our Inaugural Session.\u00a0 The two-page flyer can be downloaded in two versions for our international audience. Honouring our host, the International Medieval Congress at the University of Leeds, we prepare the pdf in both quarto and A4 formats.<\/p>\n 1. Who We Are<\/a> (A4 format)<\/p>\n 2. Who We Are<\/a> (Quarto format)<\/p>\n *****<\/p>\n See how this Session stands among RGME activities both recent and planned:<\/p>\n Valli_di_Lanzo, Lanzo Torinese, Ponte del Diavolo. Photograph by Emiliana Borruto (24 February 2012). Image via Wikimedia Commons via Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic.<\/p><\/div>\n *****<\/p>\n Please leave your comments or questions below, Contact Us<\/a>, or visit<\/p>\n We invite you to join:<\/p>\n Donations and contributions<\/strong>, in funds or in kind, are welcome and easy to give.\u00a0 Given our low overheads, your donations have direct impact on our work and the furtherance of our mission.\u00a0 For our Section 501(c)(3) nonprofit educational organization, your donations may be tax-deductible to the fullest extent permitted by law.\u00a0 Thank you for your support!<\/p>\nThe Plan<\/h2>\n
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Our 2024 Anniversary Year: \u201cBridges\u201d<\/h2>\n
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The 2024 Leeds Congress:\u00a0 \u201cCrises\u201d<\/h2>\n
Bridges and \u201cTroubled Waters\u201d<\/b><\/h2>\n
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\nImage Public Domain via gallica.bnf.fr<\/a> (Scan View 20).<\/p>\nBuilding Bridges: The Plan for the Session<\/h2>\n
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“Building Bridges ‘Over Troubled Waters’ ”
\nSponsor:
\nResearch Group on Manuscript Evidence<\/h2>\n
\n<\/strong>Ann Pascoe-van Zy<\/strong>l, School of English, Trinity College Dublin
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\nMichael Allman Conrad<\/strong>, Kontextstudium, Universit\u00e4t St Gallen<\/p>\n
\nN. K\u0131v\u0131lc\u0131m Yavuz<\/strong>, Institute for Medieval Studies \/ School of History,
\nUniversity of Leeds<\/p>\nPresentations:<\/h3>\n
\nMetaphorical Bridge from Crisis in the locus horribilis<\/em> to Peace
\nin the locus amoenus”
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\n“Resourcefulness in Action: The Use of the Port of Ibiza<\/a> in Place
\nof Mainland Ports by Venetian Ships between 1400-1403″
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\n“Diabolic, Dangerous, and Daring: Bridges as Ambiguous
\nSymbols of Medieval Risk Perception”
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Response:<\/h3>\n
A glimpse of the Bilingual Latin and Old English Paris Psalter:<\/h4>\n
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Posters for our Session<\/h2>\n
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“The RGME: Who We Are”<\/h2>\n
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Questions or Suggestions?<\/h2>\n
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