[Regia-NA] Fw: [Regia] New Journal for historic clothing and textiles

[Hazel Uzzell]

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From: "Hazel Uzzell" <gythe@snrd.freeserve.co.uk>
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Sent: Saturday, September 13, 2003 7:28 PM
Subject: [Regia] New Journal for historic clothing and textiles


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> From: "Robin Netherton" <robin@shell.nightowl.net>
> Sent: Friday, September 12, 2003 9:17 PM
> Subject: [h-cost] Good news on the publications front
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> > Many of you know that each year, Gale Owen-Crocker and I (under the
> > auspices of DISTAFF) organize several sessions on medieval dress and
> > textiles at the Medieval Congress at Kalamazoo and the Medieval Congress
> > at Leeds. And many of you have asked me over the years whether you can
get
> > published versions of the papers from these sessions, many of which
> > present groundbreaking new findings in this field.
> >
> > I have always answered that question by explaining that the Congress
does
> > not publish proceedings, and individual presenters are responsible for
> > finding publication venues on their own. However, because there is no
> > journal specifically devoted to dress/textiles topics of this period,
> > publication can be a real problem both for scholars trying to find a
> > publishing venue and researchers interested in their work. New findings
> > are often scattered piecemeal in journals in tangentially related areas
> > (literature, art, archaeology, women's studies, etc.) or in volumes of
> > "collected essays," often on some particular period or place. Too often
> > they go unpublished.
> >
> > This situation is about to change.
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> > Boydell and Brewer, whom many of you know as a publisher very prominent
in
> > medieval studies and with a strong specialty in dress & textiles and
> > material culture topics (they've reprinted the MOL books, for instance)
> > are adding an academic journal, provisionally titled "Medieval Clothing
> & Textiles,"
> > to their extensive journal lineup. This journal will serve the
> > dual purpose of providing a place for scholars in this area to publish
> > interdisciplinary work that doesn't fit so neatly into more standard
> > academic areas, and of making it easier for researchers to learn of new
> > scholarship in this field.
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> > Like many of the other academic journals Boydell publishes, Medieval
> > Clothing and Textiles will be annual. The first volume is targeted for
> > publication in late 2004 or early 2005.  Each volume will cover a range
of
> > places, periods, and disciplines - literature, art, documentary
research,
> > archaeology, trade/economics - and will include at least one paper
> > concerned with experimental reconstruction of medieval techniques. t
will
> > also be peer-reviewed, of course; at this point the editorial board
> > includes Frances Pritchard and John Hines from the UK, and Monica
Wright,
> > Miranda Haddock, and Shelly Nordtorp-Madson from the US (with further
> > additions likely). Editors will be Gale Owen-Crocker and me.
> >
> > Boydell also are quite aware that non-academics make up a good
proportion
> > of their purchasing audience in material culture topics, so they will be
> > marketing the new journal equally heavily to living historians,
> > re-enactors, and independent scholars. (Some of you may remember me
asking
> > on this list a few months ago for names of organizations with an
interest
> > in this field; that was for use in our discussions with Boydell
regarding
> > mailing lists and marketing possibilities.)
> >
> > To begin with, we'll be drawing most of our papers from the DISTAFF
> > sessions at Kalamazoo and Leeds, which include anywhere from 12 to 18
new
> > papers each year. It is quite something to realize we're facing a new
> > journal not with the typical worry of "will we get enough papers," but
of
> > "where will we put all the ones we have?" We have at least enough
> > submissions promised to fill two or three volumes already, not counting
> > the new ones generated from each Congress.
> >
> > It looks like I will be very, very busy in the coming months. Wish us
> > luck! I'll keep you posted of developments. (And yes, I hope to have a
> > paper of my own in the first volume, assuming I pass peer review ;-) )
> >
> > You are welcome to forward this announcement to appropriate lists, but
> > please drop me a note to tell me where it's going. I may eventually want
> > to send follow-up announcements, and it's useful to know who's already
> > heard.
> >
> > --Robin
> > Co-Editor, Medieval Clothing & Textiles
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