Publishing Opportunities

Fons Luminis: an Interdisciplinary Journal of Medieval Studies. New peer-reviewed journal seeks submissions of articles from all areas, especially those with an interdisciplinary emphasis; articles should be about 8,000 words and follow the Speculum stylesheet. Junior faculty and graduate students are particularly encouraged to submit. The deadline for submission to the Spring issue is 1 January; the deadline for the Autumn issue is 1 June. Inquiries and submissions should be directed to Victoria Goddard and Andrew Reeves, Editors in Chief, at edsfl@chass.utoronto.ca, or Fons Luminis, Centre for Medieval Studies, 39 Queen's Park Crescent East, Toronto, ON M5S 2C3.

Marginalia. This web site created by medievalist graduate students and based at Cambridge Univ., is intended to provide a forum, resources, and an online journal for medievalist graduate students around the world. Services include the opportunity to post a c.v. online, announcements of upcoming events, a newsletter, and information about the Medieval Reading Group. For more information, visit www.marginalia.co.uk.

Journals

Art on the Line
http://www.waspress.co.uk/journals/artontheline/

Art de l’enluminure - Art de l’enluminure is a new quarterly periodical developed to publish work on the chefs-d’œuvre of illuminated manuscripts. Published by Art et Métiers du Livre, it invites scholarly work that appeals to a broad audience. Each issue will deal with one or more manuscripts in their totality, with many color illustrations. The editorial board includes Jonathan Alexander, François Avril, Albert Châtelet, Claudine Chavannes-Mazel, Monique Cohen, Jim Marrow, Patricia Stirneman, and Robert Sukale. Inquiries and submissions should be sent to Art de l’enluminure, 110, ave. de Villiers, 75017 Paris, France (redaction@art-metiers-du-livre.com; http://art-metiers-du-livre.com).

Boydell and Brewer - Boydell and Brewer have announced two new series of annual volumes. The first will alternate between the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries and will provide a forum for the most recent research into the political, social, ecclesiastical, and cultural history of those centuries in England. Its editors are actively seeking submissions. Inquiries and manuscripts regarding the fourteenth century should be sent to Mark Ormrod, Centre for Medieval Studies, Centre for Medieval Studies, York Y01 7EP, U.K. The second, edited by Linda Clark, will be devoted to the most recent research on the fifteenth century (and may carry the debate into the sixteenth century). Submissions should be sent to contact Linda Clark, c/o History of Parliament, 15 Woburn Sq., London WC1H 0NS, U.K. (lclark@histparl.ac.uk).

Commentaria: Sacred Texts and Their Interpretation in Medieval Judaism, Christianity and Islam - The editors of Commentaria: Sacred Texts and Their Interpretation in Medieval Judaism, Christianity and Islam invite manuscripts on topics touching the interpretation of sacred texts in the traditions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Published annually by E. J. Brill, the journal welcomes articles examining specific medieval writers, cross-tradition studies, theoretical issues, modern interpreters/methods, and other appropriate topics. Commentaria gives broad interpretation to the medieval period, encompassing Late Antiquity through the fifteenth century C.E. For further information, please contact the editors: Michael Signer (Michael.A.Signer.1@nd.edu); Lesley Smith (lesley.smith@history.oxford.ac.uk); or Grover Zinn (grover.zinn@oberlin.edu).

Different Visions: A Journal of New Perspectives on Medieval Art is a web-based, open-access, peer-reviewed annual, devoted to progressive scholarship on medieval art. Different Visions seeks to fill a significant gap in current publishing venues by featuring articles employing contemporary postmodern and post-Structuralist theoretical frameworks to examine medieval visual culture. Authors are encouraged to explore the application of such approaches as feminist and gender analysis, historiography, semiotics, post colonialism and queer theory to works produced during the period from the fourth through the fifteenth century. The journal will also consider essays on medieval visual culture that emerge from multiple disciplinary perspectives. http://differentvisions.org/

Gesta - The scholarly journal Gesta was initiated in 1963, soon after the inception of ICMA. The major English-language journal devoted to the art of the Middle Ages, Gesta embraces all facets of artistic production from ca. 300 to ca. 1500 C.E., including the arts of Christian, Jewish, and Islamic cultures in the European, Mediterranean, and Slavic worlds. In addition to presenting work by leading scholars around the world with several color illustrations in each issue, Gesta is periodically devoted to focused topics; volumes have also honored individual scholars. Manuscripts should be addressed to:

Clark Maines, Editor Designate
Department of Art and Art History
Wesleyan University
High Street
Middletown, Connecticut 06457
http://www.medievalart.org/htm/publications.html

The Heroic Age: A Journal of Medieval Northwestern Europe is a free, on-line journal aimed at both scholars and amateurs interested in Britain, Ireland, and their North Sea neighbors from the Late Roman Empire to the advent of the Norman Empire. The editors are encouraging submissions of articles, essays, book and film reviews, conference papers, biographies, and selected reprints. Submissions must generally focus on early Medieval Northwestern Europe and its relations with the rest of Europe, although occasional special-topic issues will be published. Submissions for regular issues are accepted on a continual basis. Contact: Michelle Ziegler ZieglerM@slu.edu; http://www.mun.ca/mst/heroicage/.

Welcome to Hortulus, an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed, Web-based journal of medieval studies, founded and published biannually by an international board of graduate students.
http://hortulus.net/

Iconographica: Rivista di iconografia medievale e moderna / Journal of Medieval and Modern Iconography, is a new journal co-edited by Michele Bacci and Fabio Bisogni. Its goal is to become a forum for diverse disciplinary approaches to the study of images, with contributions from iconographers, art historians, and both medieval and modern historians of hagiography and literature. For further information or to subscribe to the Iconographica mailing list, send an email to the editorial board at iconographica@unisi.it..

Images Re-Vues. A new online journal published by the EHESS (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales). The journal is dedicated to the study of images/works of art from all periods and geographical areas, all methodological approaches are welcome. This new French-language, online art history journal is free.
http://www.imagesre-vues.org
CEHTA, Institut national d'histoire de l'art
2, rue Vivienne, 75002 Paris
Tél. 01 47 03 84 40

JEGP, known to some of us for decades as the Journal of English and Germanic Philology, has now become an inter-disciplinary journal for Medieval English, Germanic, and Celtic studies. The editors intend the word “medieval” to be understood as potentially including “the earliest documentary and archeological evidence for Germanic and Celtic languages and cultures; the literatures and cultures of the early and high Middle Ages in Britain, Ireland, Germany, and Scandinavia; and any continuities and transitions linking the medieval and post-medieval eras, including modern ‘medievalisms’ and the history of Medieval Studies.” The journal also welcomes explorations of theoretical questions and scholarly debates on periodization, disciplinary identity, and methodology.

Journal of the Early Book Society - The Journal of the Early Book Society for the Study of Manuscripts and Printing History (JEBS) publishes several substantial articles (35–40 pages) in each volume with emphasis on the period of transition from manuscript to print. This annual's main focus is on English and Continental works produced from 1350 to 1550. JEBS 9 is scheduled to appear in the summer of 2006. Notes on recent discoveries (4–10 pages), highlighting little-known or recently uncovered texts or images may be sent to Linne Mooney (mooney@maine.edu). Brief descriptions (150–450 words) of little or lesser-known collections and libraries of interest to the Society are always welcome and may be sent to the editor, Martha Driver, Early Book Society, English Dept., Pace Univ., 41 Park Row, New York, NY, 10038 (mdriver@pace.edu). Essays must include endnotes and a full Works Cited list. A limited number of illustrations may be included (with complete captions and permissions citations); xeroxes of these should be sent with the essay.

Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art (JHNA). Historians of Netherlandish Art is pleased to announce the inauguration of an electronic Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art (JHNA) at www.jhna.org. The journal will be published two times per year.  Its articles will focus on art produced in the Netherlands (north and south), and in other countries as they relate to this art, from the Middle Ages through today.  This includes studies of painting, sculpture, graphic arts, tapestry, architecture, and decoration, from the perspectives of art history, of technical studies, and of museum research.   In the future, the journal will engage in other forms of presentation made possible by digital technology. All JHNA articles will be evaluated in a double blind peer review process, which seeks to assure the anonymity of the author and the reviewers.  Before an article or essay is accepted for publication, it will be sent to at least two knowledgeable scholars for assessment.  These evaluations will help to guide the editors’ decision, and in most circumstances will be shared with the author.   JHNA seeks to ensure the highest critical and intellectual standards. For Submission Guidelines please consult www.jhna.org

Journal of the Holy Roman Empire
http://www.jhre.org
The Journal of the Holy Roman Empire is a peer-reviewed e-journal that offers original research on the history and culture of the Empire. We welcome contributions from all avenues of historical inquiry, including but certainly not limited to political, art, military, religious, gender, social, and economic history. The goal of JHRE is to foster scholarship on historical issues that cross the boundaries of the modern nation-state and of historiographical periodization. We encourage submissions with either a local or Empire-wide focus, but we especially hope to provide a forum for research that concerns more than one modern state or that considers Empire-wide institutions, culture, or history. The Journal of the Holy Roman Empire is a biannual publication, issued under the auspices of the Society for the Study of the Holy Roman Empire. In preparation for our first issue, we invite the submission of academic articles on the Holy Roman Empire. Contributions should be original work that has not been published previously and has not been simultaneously submitted to other journals for publication. Articles should include an abstract of not more than 150 words, written in English, that clearly defines the thesis of the work. The full address of the author, including email address, and the title of the work should appear on a separate title page. Manuscripts should ordinarily be between 6000-8000 words, but may be no longer than 10,000 words (excluding notes). Please send all submissions in electronic form (WS Word or RTF format) via email attachment to jhreditors@gmail.com.

Medica: The Society for the Study of Health and Healing in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Periods is publishing a new e-journal that has both a pre-prints sections, like some journals in the sciences, and a peer-reviewed section. Submissions may be on any subject matter of medieval medicine, health, or healing as well as the interrelationships between disciplines, such as medieval medicine and literature, law, politics, or religion. Guidelines and other information are available at http://faculty.centenarycollege.edu/medica/
Contact: Bryon Grigsby (bryon.grigsby@verizon.net).

Médiévales: the journal is online. Médiévales publishes articles on all aspects of the middle Ages: history, literature and linguistics but also law, archaeology and history of art. Each issue contains a thematic subject, often resulting from a seminar or teamwork, coordinated by a specialist. Articles on the most diverse subjects are also published under the rubric « Essais et recherches ». The rubric « Point de vue » proposes crossed readings of a work or critical bulletins on current themes of research. Reader’s notes on recent works are included in each number.

Contact:
Revues.org
Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales
Centre de la Vieille Charité
2, rue de la Charité
13 236 Marseille Cedex 02
Phone : 04 91 14 07 78
Email: contact@revues.org
Visit the website at http://medievales.revues.org/

Medieval Forum, a new electronic journal for the promotion of scholarship in medieval English literature, is inviting submissions of articles and book reviews. Medieval Forum is dedicated to providing a venue for the free exchange of ideas in a collegial, humanistic environment. The editors particularly welcome work from independent scholars. Please visit their website for submission guidelines (http://www.sfsu.edu/~medieval/).

Medievalia et Humanistica: Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Culture. The editorial board welcomes scholarly, critical, or interdisciplinary articles of significant interest on relevant material and urges contributors to communicate in a clear and concise style the larger implications, in addition to the material of their research, with documentation held to a minimum. Articles in English may be submitted to the Managing Editor, Medievalia et Humanistica, P.O. Box 28428, Austin, TX 78755-8428. Inquiries concerning subscriptions to the new series, should be addressed to the publisher, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 4501 Forbes Blvd., Suite 200, Lanham, MD 20706.

The Northern World: North Europe and the Baltic c. 400–1700 A.D. Peoples Economies and Cultures. - Peoples Economies and Cultures is a new series established by Brill as a northern counterpart its Medieval Mediterranean series. It is intended to encompass all historical disciplines, and to provide an opportunity for the publication of scholarly studies concerning the culture, economy, and society of northern lands from the early medieval to the early modern period. Scholarly contributions on a wide range of disciplines are invited: all historical subjects, every branch of archaeology, saga studies, language topics including place-names, art history and architecture, sculpture and numismatics. A primary aim is to bring forward high-caliber studies from Germany and Scandinavia and make them accessible to readers of English. Brill expects to publish two new volumes per year. The books will be between 250 and 400 pages, some with illustrations. Contact: Barbara Crawford, Dept. of Medieval History, St. Salvator’s College, Univ. of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, Fife KY16 9AL, Scotland (bec@st-andrews.ac.uk)

ShelfLife, the Bulletin of the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence, is a new publication in the field of manuscript and related studies. The journal is the only one of its kind, focusing on manuscripts of all periods, with an interdisciplinary approach. Moreover, it considers not only manuscripts, but also textual materials in many other forms and formats, from tablets and scrolls, and from architectural sculptures and stained glass, to printed books and electronic media.
Shelflife.pdf

Studies in Iconography - A Cross-disciplinary Approach to visual culture before 1600. This annual publication transferred to its new home at the Index of Christian Art, Princeton University, in October 1999. It is one of the premier journals to deal with iconography and covers every aspect of visual culture up to 1600. Published on an annual basis, past volumes have included articles which have dealt with subjects as diverse as the parish church to recent approaches to early Christian and Byzantine art. These topics are of current interest and are, like the other studies in the journal, approached from an interdisciplinary or theoretical perspective by eminent scholars in the field. The journal also includes a number of shorter scholarly articles, on a variety of themes, written by some of the most learned students and scholars in the field. Published studies in iconography and art history are reviewed in every volume. Submissions for publication in the journal are welcome and should be addressed to:

Studies in Iconography
A7 McCormick Hall
Index of Christian Art
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ 08544
Please forward each article in triplicate and include your email address if available.
http://ica.princeton.edu/editorialguidelines.html

Beginning with volume 4, 3rd series (2006), the editors of Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History will be Roger Dahood and Peter E. Medine. The journal is published annually by AMS Press (New York) under the auspices of the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS). We review submissions year round. Because our aim is to publish shortly before the ACMRS conference in February of each year, the deadline for acceptances in the following year's volume is June 1. We seek typescripts from c. 20 to c. 90 double-spaced pages in length on all aspects of medieval and early modern history: historiographical essays, translations, commentaries on texts, research notes, and manuscript, codicological, and bibliographical studies. From language and literature scholars we invite, in addition to the above, interpretive essays rooted in historical investigation. Submissions should follow The Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition (2003) but omit names of book publishers from citations. Pictures accompanying submissions should be clear photocopies. When an article is accepted, authors will be expected to provide 5 x 7 or 8.5 x 11 black-and-white glossy photographs and all necessary permissions. Digital images (in .tif or .eps format) are acceptable in place of glossy photographs. Essays should be submitted in one digital and two printed copies. The digital copy should be sent as an attachment in rich text format (.rtf) to rdahood@u.arizona.edu (medieval) or medine@u.arizona.edu(Renaissance/early modern). Send printed copies to the appropriate editor at the Dept. of English, Modern Languages Bldg. #67, P.O. Box 210067, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721.

Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching - The editors of Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching (SMART) invite submissions to this journal of essays reflecting changes in the kinds of assistance teachers need to enhance understanding of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Since we believe that excellent research and inspired teaching must be twin aspects of a revived Medieval/Renaissance curriculum, SMART essays are both scholarly and pedagogical, informative and practical. To ensure interdisciplinary consistency for SMART, contributors should format manuscripts according to the most recent edition of The Chicago Manual of Style. Papers vary greatly in length but typically are at least seven double-spaced pages. Discursive notes should be held to a minimum to facilitate an easily readable text. The concept of intellectual rigor requires that information of the type often relegated to notes be integrated with the main discussion, while the practical needs of teachers require that information about texts and sources appropriate to students at all levels be included in the text or works cited. In balancing the need for documentation with that for practicality, we urge your cooperation. Essays submitted for publication should be sent double-spaced in triplicate, along with an IBM-compatible file on disk to Kristie Bixby, General Editor, SMART, Academic Affairs and Research, Wichita State Univ. 1845 Fairmount, Wichita, KS 67260-0013 USA (316-978-3735; fax 316-978-3739; kristie.bixby@wichita.edu).

VIDIMUS is the first on-line magazine devoted to medieval stained glass. Vidimus is published monthly and subscription is free! http://www.vidimus.org. We hope to share our enthusiasm by bringing readers news, and reporting on exhibitions, events, books and websites. Every month will bring one in a series of feature articles, for which a whole range of subjects is planned, including windows, techniques, artists, patrons, collections, and much more. In each edition there will also be a detailed examination of a single panel of glass, our Panel of the Month. Let us know what you think – contact us via the website, in English, French or German.

Web Journal on Cultural Patrimony (WJCP) is a multi-disciplinary academic journal, focusing on the protection, conservation, valorization and study of international material as well as immaterial, cultural patrimony. Naturally, publication decisions are based solely on the academic merit of submitted articles. In accordance with standard academic practice, articles submitted for publication to “Web Journal on Cultural Patrimony” (WJCP) are subject to a process of blind peer review. Disciplines addressed by this journal are international and national law as is pertains to cultural and environmental patrimony; Archaeology; History, Art, History of Art; Architecture; History of Architecture; Civil Engineering; Town Planning; Computer Science; Physics; Geophysics; Chemistry and Biology applied at cultural and environmental patrimony; Geology; Anthropology; Ethnology; Geography; Economy; Languages and Literature such as oral history and traditions. http://www.webjournal.unior.it

Women's Arts News - Women's Arts News seeks 400-700 word biographies of women artists in any time period. Contact: Women's Arts News, Women's Studio Center Inc., PO Box 56155, Woolsey Station, Long Island City, NY 11105 (718-274-9585; wsc586@aol.com).

Book Publishers

Conceived as a companion to the journal Viator, Cursor Mundi is a new series of book-length studies of the medieval and early modern world, viewed broadly as the period between late antiquity and the Enlightenment. Like Viator, Cursor Mundi will bring together outstanding work by medieval and early modern scholars from a wide range of disciplines, emphasizing studies which focus on processes such as cultural exchange or the course of an idea through the centuries, and including investigations beyond the traditional boundaries of Europe and the Mediterranean. Cursor Mundi will be published by Brepols Publishers under the auspices of the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. The general editor is Christopher Baswell. Direct inquiries and manuscript proposals to Cursor Mundi executive editor, Blair Sullivan (310-825-1537; fax 310-825-0655; sullivan@humnet.ucla.edu).

Ohio State University Press - Ohio State University Press welcomes proposals for book-length manuscripts in medieval and Renaissance studies, focusing on one or more of the following areas: gender and sexuality, literature, literary theory, and the classical tradition. Prospective authors are invited to submit proposals which include a detailed summary, a table of contents, a projected word count and date of completion, and a c.v. Contact: Eugene O'Connor, Managing Editor, Ohio State University Press, 180 Pressey Hall, 1070 Carmack Road, Columbus, OH 43210 USA (o'connor.136@osu.edu; http://www.ohiostatepress.org).

Pegasus Press began in 1987 as a paperback subseries of Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies (MRTS); the early publications were reprints or paperback versions of texts in the regular series. The goal of the press has been to publish quality paperbacks in all areas of Medieval and Renaissance studies at modest cost, and the editor is always open to proposals for texts and supplementary works suitable for undergraduate and graduate studies. The list includes three series: Early European Drama in Translation, the Pegasus Shakespeare Bibliographies, and Spanish Classical Texts. Pegasus also publishes substantial collections of essays and has also published the first low-cost paleographical handbook, English Handwriting 1400-1650: An Introductory Manual. Pegasus continues to seek proposals for books such as those described above, but, thanks to substantial developments in very-small-run printing, the press now also wants proposals for the kinds of books that it might not have been able to consider in the past. How about that minor poet you've always wanted to include on your syllabus but had to send your students to the library to read? Or that important fifteenth-century book that's never had a modern edition or translation? Or that guide you've done up for your own students and which ought to have wider circulation? Send proposals to Mario A. Di Cesare 101 Booter Road, Fairview, NC 28730 (dicesare1@ mindspring.com).

Scarecrow Press, the publisher of a number of series of "historical dictionaries," is seeking authors for volumes in two of its series related to the Middle Ages. These are Medieval Warfare in the series on War, Revolution and Internal Unrest and The Middle Ages in the series on Ancient Civilizations and Historical Eras. The historical dictionary is roughly a one-volume encyclopedia consisting of a dictionary section with entries on important persons, places, events, institutions, battles and economic, social or cultural aspects as well as a chronology, introduction and bibliography. The total size could be some 250–300 printed pages for the War volume and 300–350 pages or even more for the Historical Eras volume. Please note that the press is seeking authors and not editors or contributors; co-authorship would be possible. For further information on Scarecrow Press and its various series of historical dictionaries consult our Website: http://www.scarecrowpress.com. Prospective authors should write to the series editor and include a brief cv: Jon Woronoff, Scarecrow Press, 413 route de Vesegnin, 01280 Prevessin, France (jon.woronoff@tiscali.fr).

Encyclopedias

ABC-CLIO is in the process of developing a comprehensive 21-volume Encyclopedia of World History. We are seeking writing contributions from interested scholars. We are looking for writers to prepare 500-1500 word articles with a global perspective in the area of Art History.

Compensation:
Level 1: Up to 5,000 Words: All Level 1 contributors will have their names associated with the entries they contribute, and will receive access to the e-book version of the entire encyclopedia (list price $1,800) for personal use.
Level 2: 5,001 to 10,000 words: In addition to Level 1 compensation, Level 2 contributors will receive a credit of $500 toward purchase of any ABC-CLIO e-book.

If you are interested in writing 1 or more entries, please send a c.v. and, if possible, a short writing sample to Fred Nadis and/or Monique Vallance: FNadis@abc-clio.com, MVallance@abc-clio.com

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