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A Colloquium in Honour of Caroline Palmer
The vision and achievement of Boydell and Brewer’s medievalist founders (Richard Barber and Derek Brewer) are well recognised: medieval studies in the UK and the USA over the last thirty and more years would have been inconceivably impoverished without the commitment of their firm to publishing in the field.
The face of that firm for so many medievalists is Caroline Palmer, a tireless, energetic and visionary commissioning editor and editorial director who has encouraged and supported high-quality work in medieval studies in all areas and on both sides of the Atlantic.
This York Colloquium honours Caroline Palmer’s strong commitment to the interdisciplinarity of medieval studies, long exemplified in vigorous publishing on literature and history at Boydell and Brewer and more recently in Caroline’s advocacy of material culture as an important strand of interdisciplinary medievalist publishing.
It is specially appropriate that the colloquium takes place in York, at the start of the celebration of its fiftieth year of interdisciplinary medieval studies and where Caroline Palmer has tirelessly encouraged the work of York Medieval Press, a Boydell and Brewer subsidiary established over forty years ago with the specific aim of interdisciplinary medieval studies publishing.
In honouring a distinguished commissioning editor of medieval studies, the colloquium constitutes a timely reminder of the interdependence of scholars and publishers and the importance of their mutually informed response to the rapidly changing conditions and media of work in the humanities.
We would like to express out grateful thanks to the organizers, Prof. Jocelyn Wogan-Browne (Fordham University), Prof. Chris Baswell (Columbia University and Barnard College) and Prof. Elizabeth Archibald (University of Durham), and also to Boydell and Brewer and to the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of York, Prof. Mark Ormrod, for their financial support for this event.
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