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From the Editor

Greetings!
Thank you for keeping me updated on the important scholarly work you have been doing. Among other things, do let me know if you have developed any online resources (translations, bibliographies, etc.) that you think would be of use to other members of the Society. If you can send along the web addresses and brief descriptions of them to me, I would be happy to add these references to the newsletter.

If you haven’t yet paid your annual dues, please send them to our Secretary-Treasurer, Jeremiah Hackett, at the following address:
Professor Jeremiah Hackett
Department of Philosophy
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC 29208
hackettj@gwm.sc.edu

Annual Dues Schedule: regular membership: $10; contributing membership: $15 or more; associate membership: $5; student membership:$5; lifetime membership: $150. Remember that the Society depends on your support. If you don’t like to think about having to send in your payment every year, please consider our lifetime membership category!

Finally, and most importantly, James Long recently sent a letter which has been endorsed by the members of the Society’s Executive Committee, protesting the sale at auction of the manuscript holdings in the Badische Landesbibliothek in Karlsruhe. Letters protesting this move have been coming from the international scholarly community, and the Executive Committee thought it appropriate that we add our voices. Our letter follows:

Your Excellency:
The members of the executive committee of the Society for Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy deplore the sale at auction of the collection of approximately 3,500 manuscripts in the Badische Landesbiblilothek in Karlsruhe. The recovery of our common intellectual heritage is contingent on the scientific editing of codices preserving that legacy. The dispersal of the rich collection at Karlsruhe would mean that these manuscripts would no longer be accessible to scholars of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, an outcome we as a group deplore.
By one recent estimate about 40% of Germany's manuscript holdings were destroyed in the last world war; she cannot afford to lose more.

As representatives of the profession in North America we strongly urge that the
Parliament of Baden-Wuerttemberg reverse this tragic course of events.

Very sincerely yours,
R. James Long
President,
Society for Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy

Members are urged to write their own letters to the following address:
Herr Ministerpraesident G. H. Oettinger
Villa Reitzenstein
Richard-Wagner Strasse
D-70184 Stuttgart, Germany

Don’t forget that we will be sponsoring sessions at the Eastern APA in Washington and at Kalamazoo this year. We welcome your attendance.

Best wishes for the fall semester and beyond,
Charles Bolyard
SMRP Newsletter Editor
Department of Philosophy and Religion
MSC 7504
James Madison University
Harrisonburg, VA 22807
USA
bolyarcr@jmu.edu