Highlights
In 2009 and 2010 the Research Group celebrates the twentieth anniversary of its formation as an entity in England and the tenth anniversary of its formation as a nonprofit educational corporation based in Princeton, New Jersey. The stages of our history and the variety of our activities are reported in the pages of our Profile.
The date of our "official birthday" as a New Jersey Nonprofit Corporation occurs in November. We celebrated our tenth anniversary with a gathering of Trustees, Honorary Trustees, Honorary Associates, Volunteers, and newcomers.
Gathering at the Threshold
A Celebratory Symposium
Saturday, 21 November 2009
106 McCormick Hall, Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University
Session 1
Moderator: Giles Constable (School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)
- Giles Constable, “Introductory Remarks”
- James H. Marrow (Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University ), “Words of Welcome”
- Colum P. Hourihane (Index of Christian Art, Princeton University), “Pontius Pilate and the Crucifixion”
- Raymond J. Cormier (Department of English and Foreigh Languages, Longwood University), “Glossing the Empire: High Medieval Adaptations of Vergil’s Aeneid”
- Phillip N. Haberkern (Religion Department, Princeton University), “The Manuscript as Relic: Narrative, Image, and Memory in Mid-Fifteenth-Century Bohemia”
- Matthew J. Milliner (Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University), “Ruskin’s Rift: The Space between Theology and Art History”
Session 2
Moderator: Richard K. Emmerson (School of Arts, Manhattan College, Riverdale, New York)
- David Ganz (Departments of Classics and History, King’s College, University of London, and School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton), “Risk and Fluidity in Script: An Insular Instance”
- Erik Thunø (Department of Art History, Rutgers University, The State University of New Jersey), “Deus Spectator: God’s Eye in Medieval Art”
- Karl F. Morrison (Department of History, Rutgers University), “Origin’s Self-Knowing through Scripture: Who can Express in Words the Difference between the Quality of the Sweetness of a Date and a Dried Fig?”
- Mildred Budny (Research Group on Manuscript Evidence, Princeton), “At the Threshold: Women’s Wills in Old and New England”
Discussion and Concluding Remarks
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A Round Table on The Practical Uses of Manuscripts in Research and Teaching
Friday, 19 March 2010
Yale University, New Haven
In March 2010, Mildred Budny joined the panel for the Graduate Student Committee Session organized and chaired by Andrew Kraebel (Yale University) at the 2010 Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America at Yale University. The other panelists were Consuelo W. Dutschke (Columbia University), Martin Foys (Drew University, and Fiona Somerset (Duke University). The topics under discussion included photographic and related work of the Research Group, with some recent discoveries.
Information about this Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America appears on its website:
www.yale.edu/medieval/maa2010/
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In May 2010, the Research Group co-sponsors two Sessions with the Societas Magica, for which see our page on the International Medieval Congress, Kalamazoo.
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