{"id":4809,"date":"2015-06-27T00:50:21","date_gmt":"2015-06-27T00:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/?p=4809"},"modified":"2021-04-23T15:00:55","modified_gmt":"2021-04-23T15:00:55","slug":"rgme-report-for-the-june-2015-cara-newsletter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/rgme-report-for-the-june-2015-cara-newsletter\/","title":{"rendered":"Report for the CARA Newsletter"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Our First Report for the CARA Newsletter<\/h3>\n<p>The June 2015 Newsletter for CARA (<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20170909164432\/http:\/\/www.medievalacademy.org\/?page=CARA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Committee on Centers and Regional Associations of the Medieval Academy of America<\/a>) has now appeared. In this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themedievalacademyblog.org\/pdfs\/June2015CARANews.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Newsletter online<\/a>, the Report for the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence appears on page 12. This year, the Research Group has become an official <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210418231133\/https:\/\/www.medievalacademy.org\/page\/CARA_Affiliates\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CARA Affiliate<\/a> (as recorded on page 13).<\/p>\n<p>As one of the 28 representatives present, our Director attended the Annual CARA Meeting on 15 March 2015, following the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210119174032\/https:\/\/www.medievalacademy.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Medieval Academy of America<\/a> Annual Meeting at the University of Notre Dame. \u00a0The Report of our activities for 2014-2015 is published in the CARA Newsletter. \u00a0Here we reprint the Report, with the addition of active links to its items.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Heavy-LOGO1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-784 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Heavy-LOGO1-150x138.jpg\" alt=\"Logo of the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence (colour version)\" width=\"150\" height=\"138\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Heavy-LOGO1-150x138.jpg 150w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Heavy-LOGO1-300x277.jpg 300w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Heavy-LOGO1.jpg 324w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>The Research Group on Manuscript Evidence exists to apply an integrated approach to the evidence of manuscripts and other written forms across the ages. It is a small organization, without buildings or paid staff, so that donations in funds and in kind principally support the activities themselves. As a sort of university without walls, it is open to the academic and wider worlds, including established as well as independent scholars and others alike.<\/p>\n<p>In 2014, we celebrated dual anniversaries, marking 15 years as a nonprofit educational corporation based in Princeton, New Jersey, and 25 years as an international scholarly society founded in the United Kingdom as part of a collaborative research project at the Parker Library of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. For its early years, the Group focused on a selected group of Anglo-Saxon and related manuscripts and their contexts. Based in Princeton since 1994, the Group has expanded the range of interests and activities, which our unofficial name reflects (\u2018Research Group on Manuscripts <em>and Other <\/em>Evidence\u2019) and our newly updated <a href=\"http:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">website<\/a> documents and illustrates.<\/p>\n<p>During the 2014 anniversary, events took place at Princeton University, with institutional and individual sponsorship:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/2014-Recollections-of-the-Past-Symposium-Poster.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-4879 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/2014-Recollections-of-the-Past-Symposium-Poster-232x300.png\" alt=\"Poster for 2014 Symposium at Princeton University on 'Recollections of the Past', with images courtesy of Adelaide Bennett. Poster laid out in RGME Bembino.\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/2014-Recollections-of-the-Past-Symposium-Poster-232x300.png 232w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/2014-Recollections-of-the-Past-Symposium-Poster-116x150.png 116w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/2014-Recollections-of-the-Past-Symposium-Poster.png 616w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/a>1) a symposium in May on<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/2014-symposium-recollections-of-the-past\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cRecollections of the Past: Editorial and Artistic Workshops from Late Antiquity to Early Modernity\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>2) a colloquium in November on <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/2014-colloquium-on-when-the-dust-has-settled-program-accomplished\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cWhen the Dust Has Settled, Or, When Good Scholars Go Back . . .\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>3) and a seminar in December on <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/2014-seminar-on-manuscripts-and-their-photographs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cShow &amp; Tell: Medieval Manuscripts &amp; their Photographs\u201d<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p>The Program Booklets publish the Abstracts of papers for the <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/download\/4676\">symposium<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/download\/4671\">colloquium<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p>As customary, we sponsor and co-sponsor sessions at the International Congress on Medieval Studies. In <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/2014-congress-accomplished\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2014<\/a>, there were 7 sessions, and 5 sessions in <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/2015-international-congress-on-medieval-studies-events-accomplished\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2015<\/a>, both with sessions co-sponsored by the <a href=\"http:\/\/societasmagica.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Societas Magica<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/mems.center.ufl.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Center for Medieval and early Modern Studies<\/a> at the University of Florida. For the anniversary, we began the tradition of co-sponsoring a <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/2014-anniversary-reception\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reception<\/a> at the Congress, which continued also in <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/2015-international-congress-on-medieval-studies-events-accomplished\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2015<\/a>. Our website reports our <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/congress-activities\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Congress activities<\/a> through the years, with the Programs of the sessions and the Abstracts of many papers \u2014 newly with a full index of the Abstracts both <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/abstracts\/abstracts-of-conference-papers-listed-by-author\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">by Author<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/abstracts\/abstracts-of-conference-papers-listed-by-year\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">by Year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In 2014, we began the upgrade and redesign of our website \u2014 a task more complex than expected. We launched the RGME-newsletter, <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/shelflife\/shelfmarks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>ShelfMarks<\/strong><\/a>, available in 2 forms: the online version in concise <a href=\"http:\/\/us3.campaign-archive2.com\/?u=a9edc67396cccde79d2e1b259&amp;amp;id=f14e6fe893&amp;amp;e=4df4b9af5f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">email format<\/a> (ISSN 2377-4118), and the downloadable <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/download\/4656\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">printed version<\/a> (ISSN 2377-4096) with more illustrations, layout according to our <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/style-manifesto\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Style Manifesto<\/strong><\/a>, and our own copyright font <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/bembino\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Bembino<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/ShelfMarks-masthead-corrected-26-Oct-2014.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2716\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/ShelfMarks-masthead-corrected-26-Oct-2014-300x86.jpg\" alt=\"2014 Masthead for the RGME-newsletter 'ShelfMarks'\" width=\"300\" height=\"86\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/ShelfMarks-masthead-corrected-26-Oct-2014-300x86.jpg 300w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/ShelfMarks-masthead-corrected-26-Oct-2014-150x43.jpg 150w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/ShelfMarks-masthead-corrected-26-Oct-2014-1024x295.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 2015, the Group joined CARA. In time for the 2015 Congress, the Group launched its new (WordPress) <a href=\"http:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">official website<\/a> and archived its old (Drupal) site, still available <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20160314144350\/http:\/\/www.manuscriptevidence.org\/data\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">online<\/a>. Our <strong>Style Manifesto<\/strong> has been <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/download\/4656\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">updated<\/a>. Responding to requests, we issued the next Version (1.3) of our multilingual digital font <strong>Bembino<\/strong>, available for FREE <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/bembino\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In planning activities, the Research Group welcomes suggestions for subjects, venues, hosts, sponsorships, and contributors. We seek <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/contributions-and-donations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">contributions and donations<\/a> of various kinds, along with announcements, reports, questions, and news for the <a href=\"mailto:shelfmarks@manuscriptevidence.org\">Newsletter<\/a>. Please visit our website and our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Research-Group-on-Manuscript-Evidence\/259443617456668\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"broken_link\">Facebook Page<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/eepurl.com\/6JMcD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"broken_link\">Subscribe<\/a> to the Newsletter, and <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/contact-us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Contact Us<\/a> with requests, proposals, and comments.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mildred Budny, <em>Director<\/em><\/p>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n<p>We are glad to join CARA as an Affiliate.\u00a0 We look forward to its future Meetings.<\/p>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n<p>Update:<br \/>\nOur Second Annual Report has now appeared.\u00a0 Please see the <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/2016-report-for-cara\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2016 Report for CARA<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our First Report for the CARA Newsletter The June 2015 Newsletter for CARA (Committee on Centers and Regional Associations of the Medieval Academy of America) has now appeared. In this Newsletter online, the Report for the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence appears on page 12. 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