Someone asked me about the editing on "Scandinavian archaeological textiles" I'm in the middle of, and it occurred to me you all might like a sneak peek of the tentative contents of Vol. 4 (2008) of Medieval Clothing and Textiles.
Flax/linen production in medieval Russia References to scarlet clothing in Norse sagas The connection between Italian and Anglo-Saxon terms for "wimple" Linguistic background of "coif/cuff" Analysis of an extant 14th c. coif A visual classification method for archaeological textiles The "Greenland gown" and mainland European fashion Women's turbans in 15th c. French illuminations Henry VIII's quilts So, the usual range of disciplines (art, literature, archaeology, language, history, fashion study), periods (Anglo-Saxon to Tudor), and places (Russia, Scandinavia, France, England, Italy). We've also noticed that each volume seems to develop "clusters" in certain topics; this seems to be the one for Scandinavia, archaeology, and headgear. (Yes, the Greenland gown paper is mine, the long-promised publication based on my lecture on this topic, which some of you have heard. Even now I wish I could do more on it, but I just don't have time to read all the books I want to read...) Of course this all assumes I don't go mad. I'm in the midst of copyediting footnotes in at least eight languages, written by people whose native languages are (respectively) Italian, Finnish, Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish as well as English. A little much for someone with only French, though it's odd to realize I'm understanding more and more of the Danish and Norwegian at first glance. --Robin _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
