Notice to Contributors

The Joum~f sf medieual history will publish original 11 aspect? of the history of Europe (includ- tish Isles), North Africa, and the Middle

East betwecq the fall of Rome and the Renaissance. Preference v be given tc papers on subjects which fall into cd ories not already provided for in established j la;9 “‘be Editor may or may not seek the assistz.>ce of .I eferee in evaluating the suitability CJ~ a submiss L’ and )ae reserves the right to Pccept or refuse su issions without declaring reasons. Twenty-five offprints of each published con- trit Jo;on will be supplied free to the author; addit- iona.! copies will be charged for.

For reasons of economy and uniformity, and because it is convenient to have all the printed works used and referred to in a paper listed in one place at the end, the Pu’alisher and Editor have decided to modify the traditional method of giving all refer- ences in footnotes which is currently in use in most historical journals. Instead they have decided to adopt the systepn used in scientific and many other periodicals, where abbreviated references to printed sources are given in parentheses in the text and these sources are listed at the end of the paper. The Editor is prepared t s c~&dcr papers submitted in the con- ventional form currently in use in historical period- icals, but authors of accepted submissions will bc invited to resubmit !hem in the new form (see below).

Authors are requested to check their typescripts carefully as correctitins (even of punctuation) made in the proof stage are expensive and will have to be charged for, One proof will be sent to the author and it should be carefully read, compared word for word with the original, and returned by air mail to the Publisher within a ttieek.

Company, P.O. Box 103, Amsterdam, The Nether- lands.

To facilitate editorial work and to ensure uniformity of presentation, authors are requested to prepare their contributions in accordance with the following convendons.

The languages of publication will be English, French and German. Contributions submitted in other languages may, at the Editor’s discretion and if funds are available, be translated into English for publication in the Journal.

A summary not exceeding 200 words shouid accom- pany each contribution and will be printed at the beginning. If the paper is in French or German this summary will also be printed in English, and the author should if possible provide an English translation of his or her summary.

Contributors are asked to append on a separate sheet of paper their full names and titles and their address, which should normally be that of the institution where they are employed or where their research is undertaken, together with some biographicat notes and details of their publications. If possible, they should submit several illustrations: see the Notice concerning illlrstrationJ at the end of this notice.

Manuscripts should be typewritten first (not carbon or photo) copies, typed on one side of the paper with wide margins and double spacing throughout. All pages should be numbered consecutively and the contents should be arranged in the order summary, text, notes, literature, each on separate sheets and the two last headed respectively NOTES and LITER- ATURE.

The title of the paper should be as short as possible.

Printed sources should not be given in the notes but only in the alphabetical list at the end of the paper. All referencrs to them in the text of the paper should be placed within parentheses. These references should normally take the following form: author’s or editor’s name, year of publication followed by a colon, and (unless reference is made to the work as a whole) page numbec. I’hus

As Stenton has pointed out (1947:453). . . or

Contributions or suggestions for contributions should in the first place be sent to the Editor, Profes- sor Richard Vaughax:, Department of History, Uni- vesity of Hull, Hull HU6 7RX. England. Proofs should be returned to The North-Holland Publishing

“It is impossible to determine the exact sequence of Aelfric’s works” (Stenton 1947:4X+).

Page references should be in the form 21-2, 234-7, 184-91, 1%17, 124ff.

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References to primary sources may be to the in- ternal divisions of a work, which should be denoted by Arabic numerals: thus 2.17 for Book 2, Chapter 17; or 7.31 for Chapter 7, Page 31. When references are made in this way the author’s name and/or the title of the work should be cited in the textual refer-

ence and the edition used must also be cited and listed in the LITERATURE section under the editor’s name.

References to Roman and canon law, accompanied by a note mentioning the editions used, should be made as follows:

1. Decretum Gratiani D. 1 c. 1 c. 1 q. 1 c. 1 De pen. De cons. d.a.c. d.p.c. Glos. ord.

2. Decretal collections Comp. I 1.1.1 x 1.1.1

Distinctio 1, capitulum 1 Causa 1, questio 1, capitulum 1 Causa 33, quest io 3 Tractatus de consecratione Dictum Gratianit ante capitulum . . . Dictum Gsatiani post capitulum . . . Glossa ordinaria

Compilatio prima, Libes 1, tit&s 1, capitulum 1 Decretales Gregorii IX (= Liber Extra), Liber 1,

titulus 1, capitulum 1 VI 1.1.1 Clem. Extraw.

3. Corpus iuris civilis Cod. 1.1.1 Dig. 1.1.1 lttst . Nov. Auth.

Liber sextus, Liber 1, titulus 1, sapltulum I Constitutione Clemeiltine Ext rawagan tes

Codcx justiuianus, Liber 1, titulua 1, lex 1 Digesturn, Liber 1, titulus 1, fragmentum 1 Institutiones Justiniani Novellae Authwticum

The section headed LITERAT RE should be typed double-spaced on a separate sheet of paper. It should include all printed sources mentioned in the text and shauld be arranged alphabetica?ly using the following form.

Bernoulli, C. C. (ed.) 1887. Lib4us de magnificentia ducis Burgundiae in Treveris consciipitis. Basler Chroniktn S332-64. Leipzig.

Hilton, R. H. and H. Fagan. 1950. The English rising of 1381. London.

If several works by the same author or cditnr are listed in the Literature section they should be ar- rlnged in chronological order. If several works by the same author in the same year are listed, a lower case a, b, etc. should be placed immediately after the year of publication, and the years of publication in the references in the body of the text should be denoted in the same way.

Houtte, J. A. van, and others. 1,951. Algemene ge- schiedenis der Nedeslanden, 3. De late middel- eeuwen, 1305-1477. Utsecht.

Luard, H. R. (ed.) 1890. Flores historiasum, 2. 1067- 1264. RS. London.

Marongiu, A. 1963. La forma religiosa de1 matrimo- nio nel diritto de1 regno di Napoli. Studi in memo- ria di Romualdo Tsifone 1:3-S. Sapri.

Samaran, C. (cd.) 1966. Thomas Basin, Histoise dc Louis XI, 2. Les classiques de l’histoire de France au moyen %ge. Paris.

Titles of books and periodicals in whatever lan- guage should be given in full the first time they occur in the list: they should not be italiciaed. The initiala only of authors’ first names should be given. Names of publishers should be omitted, but those of series may be included. The name of the place of publica- tion should be given in the form currently employed in the place itself and it should come last in the entry. Where there is more than one place of publica- tion the first-named alone should be mentioned.

Stenton, F. M. i947. Anglo-Saxon England. Second Fascimile reprints should be cited and listed exactly etiition. Oxford. as originals.

M%itclock, D. 1937. A note on the career ol’ Wu’lfstan the homilist. English hist<lrical review 5 ‘:460-A

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If only one volume of a multi-volume work is referred to, the reference in the text should give author or editor, the year of publication of that volume, and the page number; and the entry in the Literature section should give the year of publication of that volume followed by the title and, after a comma, the number of that volume in Arabic nu- merals.

If more than one volume of a multi-volume work is referred to in the text, a separate entry for each volume cited shot&i be included in the Literature section, each giving date and volume number, but a single entry will suffice if the date of each volume is mentioned and the total number of volumes Thus

Knowles, 1950, 1955 and 1959. The religious orders in Englrtnd. 3 ~01s. Cambridge.

If two or more volumes were published in the same year they should be differentiated in the textual references by lower case a, b, etc. and a single entry in the Literature section will suffice. It should be in the form

GCraud, H. (ed.) 1849a and b. Chronique latine de Cuillaume de Nangis de 1113 B 1300 avec les con- tinuations de cette chronique. 2 ~01s. SHF. Paris.

Well-known or frequently cited multi-volume works may be cited in the form: title or abbreviated title, volume number, page; thus

MPL, 543217.

Citations of MSS. should give the place first if necessary, followed by the name or designation of the library, the abbreviation MS., and the name of the collection, if any. Thus:

BL MS. Cotton Caligula A VIII, f. l&b. Toulouse, Bibliothhque Municipale, MS. 744, fos. 242va-245vb. BN MS. lat. 2041, f. llira-b. Vatican Library MS. Ottoboni lat. 402, fos. l?ra- 19vb.

References to unprinted source material in the notes should he kept as short as possible and should be severely abbreviated whenever they occur more than once. Avoid afi, cit. and ibid. Instead the reference should be repeated in an abbreviated form.

NOTES should be used as sparingly as possible and they should be kept as brief as possible. They may bc used for illustrative comments and explanations or elaborations: but their main purpose will be for referring to unprinted source material and for quota- tions.

Notes should be numbered consecutively through- out the text with superscript Arabic numbers and typed double-spaced on a separate page.

QUOTATIONS in the body of the text should be enclosed in double quotation marks if they are in, or have been translated into, the language of the paper. If they are more than five lines in leng,kh, they should be typed in a separate paragraph and in- dented. When they are in a language different from that of the paper, short quotations should be itali- cised; longer ones should be indented as mentioned above and not italicised. Quotations in the notes should not be italicised, nor should quotation marks be used unless the quotation has been translated into the language of the paper. Quotations in verse, or those for which a special type (Greek, Old English) is req iired, should be clearly marked as such in the margi 9.

Single quotation marks should b used when single words phrases or technical terms are quoted.

ITr*,LICS should be used for all words or phrases in languages other than the language of the paper, and for titles of works when they are mentioned in the body of the text. They should be denoted in the typescript by underlining.

The following ABBREVIATIONS mav be used freely even in the first instance:

AD AN AS ASS BL

BN CSEL f. I’os. ff MGH MPG MPL MS. MSS. PRO RIS RS SHF

Archives Departementales Archives Nationales, Paris Archivio di Stato Acta Sanctorum British Library, London (formerly British Museum) Bibliothitque Nationale, Paris Corpus scriptorum ecclesiasticorum Latinorum folio folios and following pages Monumenta Germaniae Historica Migne’s Patrologia Graeca Migne’s Patrologia Latina manuscript manuscripts Public Record Office, London Rerum Italicarum scriptores Rolls series Soci& de l’histoire de France

If other abbreviations are used, they should be listed at the beginning ‘of the Notes.

Forms like cf., vide supra, e.g., i.e., ca. should be avoided: instead words like compare, see above,

for example, or their equivalent in French or German according to the language of the paper, should be used.

Numbers under 100 should normally be written out in full.

Biblical references should be in tbe form 2 Cor. 7:14-17.

Dates should be in the form 9 July 1927.

Further conventions for English-language papers

Capital letters should be used as sparingly as possible. Onty the first word of, and proper names in, titles should be given capital initial letters; except that the principle words in the titles of learned SO-

cieties, etc. should have capital initial letters: thus Royal Historical Society, Institute of Historial Re- search. The words river, lake, king, bishop, duke, count etc. should have a capital initial letter when used in direct con.junction with the name they refer to; thus ‘the River Tyne’ but ‘along the river’; ‘the king of England’, but ‘Bishop Wulstan of Worcester’.

All modern weights and measures should be given both in metric units and in their English equivalents of pints, miles, etc; the one should follow the other in parentheses.

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The 3oumd of medieval history is one of the few journals in its field which of6ers its contributors the opportunity to illustrate their articles. The Editor and the Publisher urge all contributors to take full ad- vantage of this opportunity and include photographs, diagrams, maps, etc. in their articles.

IHustrative marcr;al should be* of good quality. For pI otographs pleaz provide colo\r or black-and-white s!ic!es, or glossy prints. Tables md charts should be c / zarfy arranged and easily rczadlable; diagrams and maps should if possiblf 3 he of such {quality that the printer can reproduce them without re-drawing.

Please number the illustrations consecutively, provide them with captions, indicate where they are to appear in the article, ancl send them to the Editor along with the typescript. If obtaining illustrations involves exceptional difficulties or delays, please contact the Publisher.