Newsletter
April
2012
Thank
you!
I would like to thank everyone who gave up their
Saturday to attend the 2012 Symposium, the speakers for so capably
demonstrating the rich variety of themes inspired by Mark Blackburn
and especially all those speakers and attendees who travelled from abroad to
make this a truly international event.
Illustration
I was surprised to see the coin illustrated
above, and shown during Guillaume & Florence’s presentation, as I misread
the obverse inscription as EGOMANIAC! Arent Pol provided the correct
description: `the extraordinary tremissis, with legend PECOMANIACO (an
unidentified location), when positioned correctly shows a moneyer at work on
the reverse (and possibly a hand held die on the obverse as well); the design may
be a pun to the name of the place ("pecunia"). See J. Lafaurie, BSFN
(1964) 342-343.`
Call for papers, Volume 3
Studies
in Medieval Coinage, Volume
3 published by Boydell & Brewer, will include papers from both the 2010 and
2012 symposia. The deadline for submissions is the end of 2012. There will be
no extension to this generous allowance. I have already received pledges for
twelve articles and space may be limited, so please do not delay in letting me
know if you want to contribute. The major bibliography now prepared and under
review may form a separate volume. Previous volumes are available from http://www.boydellandbrewer.com/ . Please
support this worthy journal; this entire initiative will be jeopardised if the
publication fails.
Style Guide
Please follow the
British Numismatic Journal guidance notes in preparing written scripts. This is
available on http://www.britnumsoc.org/.
Please, in particular:
·
Use
Times New Roman, size 12, line spacing 1.0. Use a single space at the start of
a sentence.
·
Do
not indent the first paragraph after a heading (or sub-heading), indent subsequent
paragraphs. Do not leave a line between paragraphs. Justify paragraphs (rather
than align right).
·
Use
footnotes not endnotes.
·
Use
plain quotes.
·
Number
illustrations (Fig. 1, 2, 3 etc). Supply a separate folder of .jpg images.
Ensure you have obtained all necessary permissions for use.
·
Put
full references in the Reference section at the end of the article and refer to
this in footnotes by author, date and page numbers if appropriate.
·
Use
italics for titles of published books. Titles of chapters and articles should
be in quotation marks.
·
Please
also yellow-highlight use of special fonts.
Advise me when you are ready to submit and I
will invite you to join the Dropbox.
Call
for speakers: 2013
I am intending to hold a full day symposium on
medieval coinage (roughly AD973 – 1500) during the Leeds International Medieval
Congress, 1-4 July 2013, http://www.leeds.ac.uk/ims/imc/.
Please let me have an abstract and brief biography if you wish to speak. While
this seems early, proposals for individual papers must be submitted by 31
August 2012 and session proposals by 30 September 2012. I’m not sure how well
numismatics and monetary history can be made to fit the thematic strand which
is 'Pleasure'. I await your creative suggestions and again refer you to
Egomaniac!
Call
for speakers: 2014
The next biennial symposium in early medieval
coinage will again be held in Cambridge
1. If the venue moves,
would you be prepared to pay, say, £40 daily attendance fee?
2. Would you attend if the
symposium were spread over two days?
3. Would you attend if the
symposium were on (or started on) a Friday?
4. Have you any suggestions
for expanding the scope of the event?
Pass it on!
Please
pass on this Newsletter, as it is important to make this event a success. If
you have contacts that I could usefully include in my database, please advise
(Data Protection Act permitting). If you think we might fruitfully gain
publicity elsewhere, please let me know – or just take the initiative yourself
and copy me in.
If you want to `unsubscribed` or have received
duplicate copies please let me know.
With best wishes,
Tony Abramson,
tel: 0113 225 0680.
8th April 2012
