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The ReceptioGate Affair: Truth, Defamation, and the Struggle Against Manuscript Dismemberment: #Receptiogate

by Jordi Puig
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781326490768
  • Binding: Paperback
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  • Publisher: Lulu.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Lulu.com
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  • Pages: 136
  • Original Price: GBP 35.89
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 173 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Law Enforcement

The ReceptioGate Affair is the first of two scholarly volumes that document, analyse, and contextualise one of the most virulent defamation campaigns in recent European academia-a campaign aimed at discrediting the manuscript research centre RECEPTIO and its director. More than a case study in reputational warfare, the book offers a rigorous investigation into the forces that oppose transparency in the art market, particularly regarding the commercial dismemberment of medieval manuscripts. This first volume offers a detailed chronology of events, a rigorous examination of the academic controversy that erupted around the RECEPTIO centre, a critical assessment of institutional responses, and a concluding manifesto for manuscript ethics in the digital age. It brings to light the entanglement of certain academic and commercial interests, illustrating how independent research was systematically targeted through blogs masquerading as scholarly platforms, orchestrated social media campaigns, and the misuse of algorithmic detection tools. Based on a wide range of verifiable sources-including legal filings, internal correspondence, press corrections, and eye-witness reports-the volume exposes the real dynamics at play: not a matter of scholarly misconduct, but a confrontation between critical inquiry and the vested interests of the manuscript trade. Intended for scholars in manuscript studies, digital humanities, intellectual history, and cultural heritage law.

Puig, Jordi: - Jordi Puig (ORCID: 0009-0004-3720-1911) is a retired art conservator with decades of experience in the preservation of medieval panel paintings, illuminated manuscripts, and rare books. His professional career has combined technical expertise with historical research, focusing in particular on the production, dismemberment, and digital reconstruction of manuscript heritage in Catalonia and the broader Mediterranean region. As a senior member of the Organisation pour la Protection des Manuscrits Médiévaux (OProM), Puig has contributed to key international initiatives aimed at safeguarding manuscript culture from biblioclasm, illicit trade, and institutional inaction. He played a leading role in the digital reconstruction of the Madruzzo Book of Hours, a 15th-century Flemish manuscript illuminated by Marie Vrelant and dismembered in 2017. His monograph, "The Madruzzo Book of Hours, a Dismembered Manuscript Illuminated by Marie Vrelant" (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2025, ISBN: 1-0364-4799-5), reconstructs the manuscript's history and artistic context while addressing the legal and ethical implications of its commercial dispersion. Puig continues to work as an independent scholar, advocating for provenance transparency, manuscript integrity, and ethical standards in heritage preservation.

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