[Artemisia] FWD: Medieval Clothing & Textiles Journal: Ordering update

[Julia Jackman-Brink]

FYI- For all you textile and costume people.

 > 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
 > <75years at yahoogroups.com>
 >
 > [Feel free to forward this to other relevant lists, as long as (1) you
 > keep this message intact, including this paragraph and my name and
 > e-dress, and (2) you copy me in so I know where the message is going.]
 >
 > 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