Brepols Publishers (Publisher)

Description

Chief editorship and creation of a significant research volume titled Crafting Knowledge in the Early Medieval Book: Practices of Collecting and Concealing in the Latin West (Brepols, Spring 2023: ISBN: 978-2-503-60247-9).This volume is a major output of an AHRC leadership fellowship. World-leading scholars and 'rising stars' in medieval history were invited to contribute to the volume. World-leading experts in medieval intellectual culture were invited to comment on individual papers. For instance, Martin Hellmann and Carlotta Dionisotti, authorities on Tironian notes and Latin glossaries respectively, reviewed the papers on these subjects in the volume. The series editors of The Publications of the Journal of Medieval Latin In Toronto (Alexander Andrée, Robert Getz, Gregory Hays and Michael Herren) also peer reviewed all the papers. The result is a collection of substantial, expert papers written by authorities in specific areas. The assembly of leading scholars in one place is noteworthy.

Responsible for *overall design of the volume; *book proposal sent to the editors of The Publications of the Journal of Medieval Latin (PJML); *invitations to academic experts and ‘rising stars’ in medieval history to contribute to the volume;*creation of an external review panel comprising leading experts in discipline;*liaison with contributors, expert panel of readers, and co-editor; *copy editing; *checking all Latin quotations and translations, individual bibliographies, abstracts, essays, and footnotes; *checking Latin transcriptions in numerous medieval manuscripts; *creation of a lengthy scholarly introduction to the volume and production of summaries of the individual papers (12,000 words); * oversight of two substantial indices (Manuscript index and  General index); *checking and collating all manuscript references; *creation of marketing materials; *liaison with continental libraries about digital images; *liaison with publishers and contributors about waivers,contracts, and permissions; *creation of front matter (cover image, table of contents, list of abbreviations, and information on contributors); *close proofreading of papers written by contributors whose first language was not English;*creation of bibliography and footnotes for one contributor; *checking for inconsistencies and standardizing references; *submission of a complete manuscript to Brepols; *liaison with the publisher vis the vis the proofs and final output.

Lead editor for this Brepols book in the series Publications of the Journal of Medieval Latin. The volume was co-edited with a postdoctoral fellow, Ciaran Arthur (200,000 words +images, indices) and funded by an AHRC Leadership Fellowship. The external review panel comprised world-leading scholars in the discipline from major UK,European, and US Higher Education Institutions.

Crafting Knowledge, a coherent collection, explores how knowledge was made in the early medieval book through two interrelated practices: collecting and concealing. The essays provide case studies across cultures and periods. They range across different areas (e.g. exegesis, glossography, history, lexicography, literature, and poetry),but are bound together by a central theme – crafting knowledge. Essays range from Anglo-Saxon England and Carolingian Europe to medieval Ireland and Denmark.  

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Review in the journal TECA (Bologna, 2023):