The ReceptioGate Affair: Truth, Defamation, and the Struggle Against Manuscript Dismemberment
Jordi Puig | Bibliothèque de l’OProM, 2025 | ISBN 978-1-326-49076-8
This book offers the first documented and independent account of the ReceptioGate affair. It reconstructs the timeline and exposes the mechanisms of a coordinated defamation campaign targeting Prof. Carla Rossi after her academic work on manuscript ethics and the dismemberment trade.
Drawing from verified legal documents, press corrections, institutional records, and first-hand testimonies, Jordi Puig reveals the true nature of the attacks, the economic interests behind them, and the failure of institutional responses.
### 🔍 Key themes explored:
- Defamation and digital violence in academia
- The role of blogs and social media in reputational harm
- The trade in dismembered medieval manuscripts
- Institutional silence and complicity
- Peter Kidd’s involvement and the mssprovenance blog
- Ethics and the protection of bibliographic heritage
- Foundations for the Biblioclasm and Digital Reconstructions book series
### 🔗 Reference links:
- [Documented Timeline of the Defamation Campaign (Substack)](https://oprom.substack.com/p/documented-timeline-of-the-defamation)
- [About the ReceptioGate case](https://www.receptiogate.info/timeline)
- [Publisher: Bibliothèque de l’OProM](https://www.oprom.eu)
### 📘 Citation:
Puig, Jordi. *The ReceptioGate Affair: Truth, Defamation, and the Struggle Against Manuscript Dismemberment.* Bibliothèque de l’OProM, 2025. ISBN 978-1-326-49076-8.