Saturday, May 1, 2010
Witchcraft images
Researchers studying the history of magic might be interested in the review of Claudia Swan, Art, Science, and Witchcraft in Early Modern Holland, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2005, in Kunstforum.
New Journal: Preternature
Preternature: Critical and Historical Studies on the Preternatural is currently accepting manuscripts and book review requests/suggestions. Preternature is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal housed at The Pennsylvania State University, and published in Oxford, England.
Formerly known as the Journal for the Academic Study of Magic, Preternature publishes original scholarship and texts in edition/translation on magics, the occult, spiritualism, demonology, monstrophy, and the "preternatural" in all its cultural, historical, anthropological, artistic, literary, and folkloric iterations. Submissions pertaining to any time period and to any geographic area are welcome, though the language of publication is English.
Contributions should be roughly 8,000-12,000 words, including all documentation and critical apparatus. If accepted for publication, manuscripts will be required to adhere to the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition (style 1, employing footnotes).
For more information, consult www.preternature.org.
Queries about submissions, queries concerning books to be reviewed, or requests to review individual titles may be made to the Editors:
- Peter Dendle, Department of English, The Pennsylvania State University, Mont Alto, pjd11@psu.edu,
- Kirsten C. Uszkalo, English and Digital Humanities, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, circe@ufies.org
- Richard Raiswell, Department of History, University of Prince Edward Island, Canada, rraiswell@upei.ca
Formerly known as the Journal for the Academic Study of Magic, Preternature publishes original scholarship and texts in edition/translation on magics, the occult, spiritualism, demonology, monstrophy, and the "preternatural" in all its cultural, historical, anthropological, artistic, literary, and folkloric iterations. Submissions pertaining to any time period and to any geographic area are welcome, though the language of publication is English.
Contributions should be roughly 8,000-12,000 words, including all documentation and critical apparatus. If accepted for publication, manuscripts will be required to adhere to the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition (style 1, employing footnotes).
For more information, consult www.preternature.org.
Queries about submissions, queries concerning books to be reviewed, or requests to review individual titles may be made to the Editors:
- Peter Dendle, Department of English, The Pennsylvania State University, Mont Alto, pjd11@psu.edu,
- Kirsten C. Uszkalo, English and Digital Humanities, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, circe@ufies.org
- Richard Raiswell, Department of History, University of Prince Edward Island, Canada, rraiswell@upei.ca
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