As you know, it is a bit difficult to keep up with the literature, conferences, symposia, etc. in the field of textiles and clothing from the post-Roman through the early modern periods (500-1600CE). It is a field spanning many disciplines in many languages with the indexing of the journals quite scattered (if indexed at all) and many titles not well publicized or easily available outside their country of publication. Well, in an informal discussion after a DISTAFF session at the last International Medieval Congress (Kalamazoo 2008) several of us (Dr. Carole Collier Frick, Dr. Gale Owen-Crocker, Robin Netherton and myself) bemoaned this and it was decided that an elist might be useful. So I have created two:
A discussion list, MEDTC-DISCUSS: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MEDTC-DISCUSS/ and a newsletter list for announcements of titles, etc. : MEDTC-RESOURCES: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MEDTC-RESOURCES/ Though MEDTC-RESOURCES will include the titles and announcements from MEDTC-DISCUSS (delayed and edited), it will not include any of the discussion of them and only in MEDTC-DISCUSS will you be able to post directly (I am quite happy to pass on any suggestions, however) These lists are academic in focus and scholarly in tone. Discussion of personal projects (other than publications), reproduction techniques, supplies, social or re-enactment events, etc. should be taken elsewhere. Please see the full descriptions at the links above. Whether you join or not, please sent your list of publications(in any language) for inclusion to mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] or directly to me at mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] It would be most appreciated. I do hope that one of these elists will be of interest and assistance and that you will choose to participate. Please pass this invitation along to any colleagues or institutions that might also be interested. Thank you. Beth Matney _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
