General Editor: Graeme Dunphy
 

Editorial team: Sverre Bagge (Bergen), Keith Bate (Poitiers), Andrew Breeze (Navarre), Marek Derwich (Wrocław), Bill Caferro (Vanderbilt), Jan van Ginkel (Leiden), Eva Haverkamp (Rice, TX), Don Kennedy (N. Carolina), Josef Lössel (Cardiff), Roland Marti (Saarbrücken), Martine Meuwese (Amsterdam), Peter Nobel (Reading), Stephen Penn (Stirling), Francesco Salvestrini (Florence), Jan Schmidt (Leiden), Lucia Sinisi (Bari), Dion Smythe (Belfast & London), Robert Stein (Leiden), Dorothea Weltecke (Göttingen), and Aengus Ward (Birmingham).

Responsible at Brill: Julian Deahl, supported by Marcella Mulder; project manager at Brill: Ernest Suyver.
 

The Encyclopedia of the Medieval Chronicle, planned to appear under the Brill imprint (Leiden) in 2009, will be a single-volume interdisciplinary reference work (c.900 pages, c. 1000 words per page) which will fill an important gap especially for historians and literary scholars working on medieval chronicles from Europe and the Near East. Approximately 2500 entries will describe individual anonymous chronicles or the historical oeuvre of particular chroniclers, covering the widest possible selection of works written in Latin, English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch, Norse, Irish, Hebrew, Arabic, Greek, Syriac and other languages. About a further 30 leading articles will give overviews of genres and historiographical traditions, and perhaps 50 thematic entries will cover particular features of medieval chronicles and such general issues as authorship and patronage. About 20 of these thematic entries will cover art-historical questions.

The current status of the project

The lemma-list has now been more or less finalised, though we would still be grateful for feedback on it from members of the academic community. Omissions drawn to our attention before the end of 2007 can still be rectified. The list may be browsed in the CMS program (see below).

We are now at the stage of recruiting contributors, and a little over half of the articles have been placed. Enquiries from qualified scholars wishing to write for the project would be very welcome. Each of the subject editors is responsible for a part of the total list. Enquiries should be made to the relevant editor. Their remits and contact data are listed here. In particular we are urgently needing people competent to work on the large number of Latin chronicles from France, Germany and Italy. We are also keen to make contact with Islamic specialists able to work on Arabic and Persian texts. There are also a significant number of vernacular Italian works free, and a smaller number in Middle English.

Articles are to vary in length from 100 to 5000 words, but most entries on single works are to be 200-400 words in length. Sample entries and information for authors are given in the authors' manual, which will be supplied on request by any of the editors.

CMS: online access and reading rights

The encyclopedia is being compiled in a Content Management System (CMS) which is accessable on-line. Authors submit their texts to the editors who upload them and edit them centrally. Authors have individual logins which allow them to monitor their own articles and read each other's. Anyone else interested in browsing the embryonic work (and giving us the benefit of their observations) should contact one of the editors, introducing themselves and asking for a guest login. The CMS can be accessed here.

(Page last updated 14 March 2007.)