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

Mon, 15 Sep 2003 09:39:46 -0400

Oh excellent!

I wrote last spring about getting a paper from one of the Kzoo
sessions--maybe they'll publish it in the journal...  :)

Thanks for forwarding this, Hazel!

--charlotte mayhew

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Hazel Uzzell" <gythe@snrd.freeserve.co.uk>
To: "Regia NA" <list-regia-na@lig.net>
Sent: Sunday, September 14, 2003 3:43 AM
Subject: [Regia-NA] Fw: [Regia] New Journal for historic clothing and
textiles

>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Hazel Uzzell" <gythe@snrd.freeserve.co.uk>
> To: "Regia E-Group" <regia@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Saturday, September 13, 2003 7:28 PM
> Subject: [Regia] New Journal for historic clothing and textiles
>
> > Forwarded from another list...
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Robin Netherton" <robin@shell.nightowl.net>
> > Sent: Friday, September 12, 2003 9:17 PM
> > Subject: [h-cost] Good news on the publications front
> >
> > > 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 they go unpublished.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.
> > >
> > > 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.
> > >
> > > 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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