[MR] ANOTHER textile book!! (Medieval Clothing & Textiles Journal: Orderin...)

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Nancy / Ingvild
 

Greetings!

Forwarding a message from Robin Netherton about the  new Textiles and
Clothing journal.  Why should you be interested?  Besides the fact that I
have a paper in it :-), I got to hear a number of  the other articles as
Kalamazoo papers, and they were terrific.  I  hope this journal will receive
a lot of support from SCA costume  researchers, since there are several
years' worth of papers still waiting  to be published--a number by SCA
people--and this journal will be tapping  that hidden gold mine in future
years.

Nicolaa


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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