[Regia-NA] [Fwd: Medieval Clothing & Textiles Journal: Ordering update]]

[rmhowe]

FYI for fiber and costuming folks, et al:

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>Subject: [h-cost] Medieval Clothing & Textiles Journal: Ordering update
>Date: Friday 26 November 2004 12:40 pm
>From: Robin Netherton <robin at shell.nightowl.net>
>To: Historic Costume List <h-costume at indra.com>, 75years List
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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.
>
>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:
>
>http://www.boydell.co.uk/43831236.HTM
>
>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.
>
>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.)
>
>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.)
>
>The first volume includes the following papers:
>-- an overview (complete, we hope) of all known examples of European
>embroidery before 1100 (Elizabeth Coatsworth)
>-- a literary analysis of textile imagery in Anglo-Saxon riddles and
>poetry (Maren Clegg-Hyer)
>-- a study of an illumination showing royal dress in an Anglo-Saxon
>manuscript (Gale R. Owen-Crocker)
>-- a look at clothing color references in Icelandic sagas (Sandra Ballif
>Straubhaar)
>-- an account of a particular technological change in the construction of
>medieval fulling mills (John Muendel)
>-- two different papers on regulations on clerical dress, 13th-14th c.
>(one by Susan M. Carroll-Clark and another by Thomas M. Izbicki)
>-- a comparison of theories about tippet construction and attachment in
>14th century Western Europe (Robin Netherton)
>-- a summary of dress and textile references in a group of late medieval
>English wills (Kristen M. Burkholder)
>-- a theory and experimental reconstruction of a method of weaving 15th
>century ruffled-edge veils (Carla Tilghman).
>
>And some book reviews, too.
>
>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.
>
>Feel free to direct any questions to me.
>
>--Robin Netherton
>Co-Editor, Medieval Clothing & Textiles
>robin at nightowl.net