Research Group on Manuscript Evidence

10/07/2026

Our next Episode for the series "The Research Group Speaks" offers Part 2 of "Local Saints and Their Cults". Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski, Bruce L. Venarde, and Edmund van der Molen will talk about their work on the translation and commentary of the Life and Inquest of Jeanne-Marie de Maillé (died 1414). You are invited to join the conversation. Saturday 17 October 2026 online. See you then!

We welcome Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski and her team finishing a translation/commentary of the Life and Inquest of Jeanne-Marie de Maillé (d. 1414).

09/14/2026

Reminder: Deadline for your proposals for papers is Tuesday 15 September 2026.
We offer two sessions on
"Ecologies of the Book" and "Moving the Mail"

We announce the Call for Papers for the RGME Sessions at the 2027 ICMS (due by 15 September) on "Ecologies of the Book" and "Moving the Mail".

08/18/2026

We announce and celebrate activities and accomplishments of RGME Associates in their own right. Updates include book awards won by Reid Byers and Richard A. Kopley and a lecture by Martha Frish.

The RGME shares news of activities which RGME People are engaged in, such as projects, conference papers, publications, exhibitions, and more.

08/05/2026

We announce the CFP for next year's ICMS. The RGME prepares 2 sessions, for which we invite your proposals, due by 15 September 2026.

We announce the Call for Papers for the RGME Sessions at the 2027 ICMS (due by 15 September) on "Ecologies of the Book" and "Moving the Mail".

08/03/2026

We announce the CFP for next year's ICMS. The RGME prepares 2 sessions, for which we invite your proposals, due by 15 September.

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We announce the Call for Papers for the RGME Sessions at the 2027 ICMS (due by 15 September) on "Ecologies of the Book" and "Moving the Mail".

07/06/2026

The 2026 IMC at Leeds starts today! Tomorrow has our RGME Session, "Manuscripts at Play and as Play"
Game on!

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07/01/2026

Our next event: Early July at the 2026 IMC!

The RGME's session at the 2026 International Medieval Congress considers the nature of play in manuscripts, across time and space within temporalities.

06/01/2026

With 1 June and its deadlines fir proposals for sessions for the 2027 iCMS, we report plans for next year.

For reasons we do not understand, they do not include any with the Societas Magica. The 2026 ICMS, with 2 sessions co-sponsored by the RGME and the Societas, marked the successful completion of 22 consecutive years of co-sponsorship between our organizations at the ICMS. Our celebrations of this collaboration are earnest, with thanks to all involved, as we recognize the unrequited end of an era.

05/23/2026

We apologize. The RGME official website has been offline since Thursday at about 5:40 pm EDT. Repeated efforts, taking about 7 unpaid hours altogether by our Director, to find remedy with our website manager BlueHost have failed, with a succession of failures. Not only have they revealed that the problems are even greater (it would appear at their end), but also the tech specialists with the necessary access to the site have bailed out by saying that they call back (within 1 to 2 hours or very soon, neither happening). Trying again only received disconnects (three times).

We are trying to find the support and remedy that are paid for and promised. It is not for lack of our trying that our site is not working. We worry about what other failures have arisen (see above) because or alongside the online access. We enter a holiday weekend wondering when our website might communicate with our community again, and, alas, what might have been lost because of larger issues with the website management which, after careful consideration and consultation, we chose a couple of years ago.

We hope for remedy. Watch this space! We live in hope, wondering what might fix this lifeline.

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05/14/2026

Today we start our activities, in hybrid format, at the 2026 International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo. We offer 5 co-sponsored sessions and an Open Business Meeting, starting soon!