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On Behalf Of Robin Netherton<br>
Subject: Medieval Clothing & Textiles Journal: Ordering
update<br><br>
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Many of you will remember me posting last year to announce a new academic
journal, _Medieval Clothing & Textiles_. The publisher is Boydell
& Brewer; the editors are Gale Owen-Crocker and myself. At that time,
I promised I would update you when I had solid information on publication
date and ways to order.<br><br>
Boydell now has the journal up on its website, for pre-order. It's
scheduled for April 2005; we'll be celebrating its launch at Kalamazoo in
May. You'll find the page here:<br><br>
<a href="http://www.boydell.co.uk/43831236.HTM">http://www.boydell.co.uk/43831236.HTM</a><br><br>
Some of you will remember that there was a question about the format and
cost of the journal. We're well aware that many of our readers will be
serious re-enactors who want to keep up with scholarly research, but
whose budgets are quite different from that of an academic library or
professional scholar. Boydell normally publishes its journals in a
high-quality hardback, priced around $75 US (45 GBP). We argued
strenuously for Boydell to consider publishing our journal in a cheaper
paperback edition, to make it more accessible to purchasers outside
academe.<br><br>
It appears we ended up with the best of both worlds. The journal will be
published in hardback -- but at the far more reasonable price of $39.95
USD (25.00 GBP). This is far better than I expected, and I hope that
falls within the purchase threshold for at least some of you! (I
campaigned for a lower price largely on the promise that it would
increase sales among independent researchers, so I hope I won't be proven
wrong.)<br><br>
As I've written earlier, it's a scholarly journal touching on a wide
range of fields (literature, art, economics, archaeology, etc.), so we
don't expect it to appeal to all medieval costumers, and not everyone
will find their own interest areas covered in every volume. But we're
aiming for a large spread in time/place representation in each one, so
with luck there will be something for most readers who are interested in
scholarly research. (We're also aiming to include at least one paper
based on experimental reconstruction in each volume.)<br><br>
The first volume includes the following papers:<br>
-- an overview (complete, we hope) of all known examples of European
embroidery before 1100 (Elizabeth Coatsworth)<br>
-- a literary analysis of textile imagery in Anglo-Saxon riddles and
poetry (Maren Clegg-Hyer)<br>
-- a study of an illumination showing royal dress in an Anglo-Saxon
manuscript (Gale R. Owen-Crocker)<br>
-- a look at clothing color references in Icelandic sagas (Sandra Ballif
Straubhaar)<br>
-- an account of a particular technological change in the construction of
medieval fulling mills (John Muendel)<br>
-- two different papers on regulations on clerical dress, 13th-14th c.
(one by Susan M. Carroll-Clark and another by Thomas M. Izbicki)<br>
-- a comparison of theories about tippet construction and attachment in
14th century Western Europe (Robin Netherton)<br>
-- a summary of dress and textile references in a group of late medieval
English wills (Kristen M. Burkholder)<br>
-- a theory and experimental reconstruction of a method of weaving 15th
century ruffled-edge veils (Carla Tilghman).<br><br>
And some book reviews, too.<br><br>
The plans right now are for a print run of 1,000. That's good for a
specialty journal, and is meant to cover all the libraries and individual
specialists who will want copies. I would guess that if there's a huge
demand in pre-orders, Boydell would increase the print run to cover it,
but I'm not planning on that. So, when it's gone, it's gone -- I wouldn't
plan on buying a copy of Vol. 1 a year or two down the road.<br><br>
Feel free to direct any questions to me.<br><br>
--Robin Netherton<br>
Co-Editor, Medieval Clothing & Textiles<br>
robin@nightowl.net</tt></blockquote></blockquote><SNIP><br>
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