> I shall pitch the idea to a publisher or two and report on the
> responses. Meanwhile, perhaps those interested might e-mail me privately
> with suggestions for our collaborative contributions. I don't see why we
> couldn't include 20 to 30 short articles, each with its own short
> bibliography and suggestions for further reading.
>
> NB. I was looking again at Eric Stanley's _The Search for Anglo-Saxon
> Paganism_ (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1964), and it strikes me as a good
> model for this kind of work. Most fetching is the length of each
> chapter: about 1500 words.
>
> Merci en avance,
> Stephen Harris
Shouldn't you/we also be thinking about ELECTRONIC publication, at least
of the drafts and preliminary discussions? The acquisition of information
and misinformation from the net is increasing by leaps and bounds, and to
aim this "corrective" exercise only at hardcopy publication distribution
would be unfortunate. Which, to me, means:
(1) In talking to prospective publishers, DON'T preclude the possibility
of electronic publication in various forms and at various stages, and
(2) Check with groups such as the ECOLE project to see if what is being
planned here would fit with their "encyclopedic" electronic aims.
Also, if and when this gets underway, the people on MEDTEXTL and similar
lists should certainly be invited to contribute in appropriate ways; there
is lots of expertise available on the net!
Bob Kraft, UPenn
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