The Heroic Age (journal)

The Heroic Age: A Journal of Early Medieval Northwestern Europe is a peer-reviewed academic journal founded in 1998,^[1][2] with first issue having been published during spring/summer 1999.^[3] The founder and the first editor-in-chief of the journal was Michelle Ziegler.^[4][5] (See also "Letter from the Editor" in Issue 1 of the journal, Spring/Summer 1999, signed by Michelle Ziegler.)^[6]

The title of the journal, The Heroic Age, refers to the early medieval period, though there is certain variation in the definition of the period in focus: it is (or has been, in previous versions of their website, calls for papers, and other sources) defined as stretching "from the early 4th through 13th centuries",^[7] "from the beginning of the fourth century through the beginning of the thirteenth",^[8][9] "from the late fourth through eleventh centuries",^[10] "from 400-1100 AD",^[11] "approximately [...] between 300 and 1200 CE",^[12] and "from the late Roman empire to the advent of the Norman empire".^[13] This variation is (partly, at least) accounted for in the Letter from the Editor in Issue 10 (May 2007) as related to changes in the editorial board of the journal: "[...] our Editorial Board experienced a few changes. While some members retired, we also added several new members [...] With these changes in board composition, our attentions necessarily shifted: four of the five new members do significant work on the continent. To address this, our new Mission Statement increases the time period we consider from 400-1100 to 300-1200. Likewise, there is an accompanying shift in geography. Our new Mission Statement addresses all of Northwestern Europe evenly rather than stressing the British Isles."^[14]

Publications in The Heroic Age cover all aspects of Early Medieval Northwestern Europe.^[8][15] The journal seeks, according to their own homepage, "to foster dialogue between all scholars of this period across ethnic and disciplinary boundaries, including—but not limited to—history, archaeology, and literature pertaining to the period".^[16]

The Heroic Age started as a biannual journal: it had a spring/summer and a fall/winter issue in 1999 and in 2000. Two issues were published also in 2010, the first one in August and the second in November. However, the frequency of published issues decreased in the new millennium. No issues of the journal were published in 2002, 2011, 2013, and 2014. Otherwise (that is, in 2001, 2003–2009, 2012, and 2015), one issue per year was published.^[17] Larry Swain wrote that the original idea was that The Heroic Age should appear quarterly.^[18] Intentions to publish two yearly issues have also been expressed, both in the initial stage,^[19] and later.^[20]

The Heroic Age has had themed issues,^[21] general issues,^[22] and issues with a themed section and a general one.^[23] In particular, themed issues of the journal have been devoted to Arthurian studies,^[24] Beowulf studies,^[25] Anglo-Celtic relations,^[26] and early medieval folklore^[27] among other topics. Historical linguistics fall into the scope of the journal as well; Oliver M. Traxel noted that the journal even had "an entire issue dedicated to early medieval languages and linguistics".^[28][29]

Regular features include full-length research articles, editions and translations of primary sources, biographical essays, a forum on modern theory and scholarship, a review of relevant web-sites ("Electronic Medievalia"), reviews of scholarship originally published in German, Dutch, and French (a column called "Continental Business"), as well as book reviews (including reviews of scholarly monographs and fiction based on the Middle Ages), and film and television reviews.^[30][31] The BABEL working group has since spring 2008 had a regular column, called "babelisms" and edited by Eileen A. Joy.^[32][33]

In 2010, the journal published a cluster of essays in tandem with postmedieval: a journal of cultural medieval studies.^[34][35]

The website of the journal has also a links page,^[36][37] and a blog.^[38]

The editors-in-chief are currently L. J. Swain (Bemidji State University) and Deanna Forsman (North Hennepin Community College).^[39][40][41]

References

1. ↑ Breen, Thaddeus C. "The main Irish archaeological and historical journals". Irish Archaeology. Retrieved 2015-12-21. The Heroic Age. A fully peer-reviewed academic on-line journal intended for professionals, students and independent scholars. [...] The Heroic Age was founded in 1998. 
2. ↑ Ashley, Mike (2011-09-01). The Mammoth Book of King Arthur. Little, Brown Book Group. ISBN 9781780333557. The Heroic Age is a free on-line journal founded in 1998 and dedicated to the study of Northwestern Europe from the Late Roman Empire to the advent of the Norman Empire. 
3. ↑ "The Heroic Age Archives". www.heroicage.org. Retrieved 2015-12-17. 
4. ↑ Clarkson, Timothy (2012-10-05). "The Heroic Age (issue 15)". Senchus. Notes on Early Medieval Scotland (A blog created by Tim Clarkson as a personal notepad for things Scottish and medieval.). Retrieved 2015-12-17. This successful online journal, founded by Michelle Ziegler in the 1990s, goes from strength to strength. 
5. ↑ "Editorial Staff". www.heroicage.org. Retrieved 2015-12-20. The Heroic Age Founder: Michelle Ziegler (Belleville, Illinois), Interests: Sixth- to Ninth-century Northumbria and Dalriada, Hagiography 
6. ↑ "The Heroic Age: Letter from the Editor". www.heroicage.org. Retrieved 2015-12-19. 
7. ↑ "The Heroic Age Homepage". www.heroicage.org. Retrieved 2015-12-20. The Heroic Age focuses on Northwestern Europe during the early medieval period (from the early 4th through 13th centuries). 
8. 1 2 "The Heroic Age Mission statement". www.heroicage.org. Retrieved 2015-12-15. The Heroic Age is dedicated to the exploration all aspects of early medieval Northwestern Europe, from a variety of vantage points and disciplines from the beginning of the fourth century through the beginning of the thirteenth. 
9. ↑ Jones, Charles (October 7, 2012). "AWOL - The Ancient World Online: Open Access Journal: The Heroic Age". ancientworldonline.blogspot.com. Retrieved 2015-12-20. The Heroic Age is dedicated to the exploration all aspects of early medieval Northwestern Europe, from a variety of vantage points and disciplines from the beginning of the fourth century through the beginning of the thirteenth. 
10. ↑ Liuzza, R.M., ed. (Spring 2007). "Call for Submissions: The Heroic Age Issue 13, "Early Medieval Manuscripts: Use and Abuse"" (PDF). Old English Newsletter 40 (3) (Published for The Old English Division of the Modern Language Association of America by The Department of English, University of Tennessee, Knoxville). p. 12. Retrieved 2015-12-15 – via OENewsletter.org. The Heroic Age is a fully peer-reviewed academic journal intended for professionals, students and independent scholars. Its focus is on Northwestern Europe during the early medieval period (from the late fourth through eleventh centuries). The editors seek to foster dialogue between all scholars of this period across ethnic and disciplinary boundaries, including, but not limited to, history, archaeology, and literature pertaining to the period. 
11. ↑ "The Heroic Age". Retrieved 2015-12-20. This is the blog of The Heroic Age, http://www.heroicage.org, an online journal dedicated to the study of European Northwest from 400-1100 AD. 
12. ↑ "Entry-20090508061914-_The_Heroic_Age - Scholares.net". www.scholares.net. Retrieved 2015-12-20. The Heroic Age: A Journal of Early Medieval Northwestern Europe invites submissions for our upcoming issues. In each issue, we plan to publish papers on any topic that falls approximately in the era between 300 and 1200 CE and within the general geographical region of Northwestern Europe [...]. 
13. ↑ Trinkle, Dennis A.; Merriman, Scott A. (2006). The History Highway: A 21st Century Guide to Internet Resources (4th ed.). M.E. Sharpe. p. 85. ISBN 9780765616302. The Heroic Age is a refereed online journal dedicated to the study of northwestern Europe from the late Roman empire to the advent of the Norman empire. 
14. ↑ "Letter from the Editor". www.heroicage.org. Retrieved 2016-01-04. 
15. ↑ "The Heroic Age Homepage". www.heroicage.org. Retrieved 2015-12-21. The Heroic Age publishes issues within the broad context of Early Medieval Northwestern Europe. 
16. ↑ "The Heroic Age Homepage". www.heroicage.org. Retrieved 2015-12-20. The Heroic Age focuses on Northwestern Europe during the early medieval period (from the early 4th through 13th centuries). We seek to foster dialogue between all scholars of this period across ethnic and disciplinary boundaries, including—but not limited to—history, archaeology, and literature pertaining to the period. 
17. ↑ "The Heroic Age Archives". www.heroicage.org. Retrieved 2015-12-21. 
18. ↑ Swain, Larry (May 2009). "Letter from the Editor". The Heroic Age. A Journal of Early Medieval Northwestern Europe (12). ISSN 1526-1867. Retrieved 2015-12-22. The Heroic Age will celebrate its first decade in 2010. We formed the board in late 1999 and published our inaugural issue in Spring 2000, imagined then as appearing quarterly. 
19. ↑ "The Heroic Age - A Journal of Early Medieval Northwestern Europe - Eintrag im Clio-online Web-Verzeichnis Geschichte". www.clio-online.de. Retrieved 2015-12-21. It is our intent to publish twice a year. 
20. ↑ Swain, Larry; Malcor, Linda (May 2008). "Letter from the Editor". The Heroic Age: A Journal of Early Medieval Northwestern Europe (11). ISSN 1526-1867. Retrieved 2015-12-22. [...] we are working on returning the journal to a bi-yearly schedule [...] 
21. ↑ Breen, Thaddeus C. "The main Irish archaeological and historical journals". Irish Archaelogy. Retrieved 2015-12-21. Each issue has a theme. These have included Saints, Folklore and Anglo-Saxon Attitudes. 
22. ↑ "The Heroic Age Archives". www.heroicage.org. Retrieved 2015-12-21. Issue 7—General Issue (Summer 2004) 
23. ↑ "The Heroic Age Homepage". www.heroicage.org. Retrieved 2015-12-21. Each issue has a "general" section and a "themed" section. 
24. ↑ "The Heroic Age: Issue 1 Early Arthurian Tradition: Text and Context". www.heroicage.org. Retrieved 2015-12-17. 
25. ↑ "The Heroic Age: Issue 5 Anthropological and Cultural Approaches to Beowulf". www.heroicage.org. Retrieved 2015-12-17. 
26. ↑ "The Heroic Age: Issue 4 Anglo-Celtic Relations in the Early Middle Ages". www.heroicage.org. Retrieved 2015-12-17. 
27. ↑ "The Heroic Age Issue 11 Folklore". www.heroicage.org. Retrieved 2015-12-17. 
28. ↑ Traxel, Oliver M. (2012). "Electronic/online resources". In Bergs, Alexander. English Historical Linguistics. An International Handbook 2. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter Mouton. p. 1145. ISBN 978-3-11-020265-6. There are also interdisciplinary journals of interest to historical linguists, such as the one published by the web-based community Digital Medievalist, which has offered articles on bibliographies and editions on medieval texts (http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/journal/), and The Heroic Age, which even has an entire issue dedicated to to early medieval languages and linguistics (http://www.heroicage.org/). 
29. ↑ "The Heroic Age Issue 12". www.heroicage.org. Retrieved 2015-12-21. 
30. ↑ "The Heroic Age Homepage". www.heroicage.org. Retrieved 2015-12-15. 
31. ↑ "Call for Papers". www.heroicage.org. Retrieved 2015-12-15. 
32. ↑ "BABELisms: Heroic Age". BABEL working group. Retrieved 2015-12-17. 
33. ↑ "postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies (PROSPECTUS)". www.siue.edu. Retrieved 2015-12-17. Members of BABEL have worked strenuously over the past four years to grow the audience for a journal that would draw such an audience, and we are dedicated to cultivating a synergistic medieval studies, primarily through collaborations with editors at other journals and book series (both medieval-oriented and more modern), such as Exemplaria (one of whose editors, Tison Pugh, is a member of BABEL), Literature Compass, the Journal of Narrative Theory, The Heroic Age (in which BABEL edits a regular column, “babelisms”), the New Middle Ages book series at Palgrave, the Interventions book series at Ohio State University Press, the Queer Interventions series at Ashgate, and also through a weblog collaboration with Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, Karl Steel (Brooklyn College, City University of New York), and Mary Kate Hurley (Columbia University) at In The Middle, which has an average of 250-300 readers a day and over 100 regular subscribers. 
34. ↑ Joy, Eileen A. "In the Middle: NEW ISSUE OF POSTMEDIEVAL: CRITICAL EXCHANGES". www.inthemedievalmiddle.com. Retrieved 2015-12-16. We are also very excited to announce that one cluster of essays in this issue, "The State(s) of Early English Studies," is also published in tandem with the newly released issue of The Heroic Age: A Journal of Early Medieval Northwestern Europe. [...] In order to craft a bridge for this essay cluster between a journal that aims to bring the medieval and modern into productive critical relations for a broad audience within the humanities and beyond (postmedieval) and a journal that primarily specializes in studies of early medieval northwestern Europe (The Heroic Age), we are publishing this cluster across the two journals, with the essays by Davis, Pasternack, Stodnick and Trilling, and Weston appearing here in this issue, and the essays by Dockray-Miller, Lees and Overing, and Treharne appearing in Issue 14 of The Heroic Age. The Heroic Age is an online, open-access journal and the essays there are fully available online; the essays here by Davis, Pasternack, Stodnick and Trilling, and Weston will be available free online for a brief period in November [until Nov. 18th], in order that the entire cluster may be read together online at that time. 
35. ↑ Joy, Eileen A. "The State(s) of Early English Studies: A Shared Essay Cluster with postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies". www.heroicage.org. Retrieved 2015-12-20. The cluster of essays published jointly here and in Volume 1, Issue 3 of postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies (Nov. 2010), addresses the intersections between early English studies, theory, and the present. 
36. ↑ Eden, Brad (2005). "Chapter 2. Humanities Web Portals". Library Technology Reports (Published by ALA TechSource, an imprint of the American Library Association) (4, July–August 2005): 22. doi:10.5860/ltr.41n4. Retrieved 2015-12-20. A well-designed portal for this specific time period, The Heroic Age: Links Page features links to several categories, including Anglo-Saxon, Arthurian, Briton, Frankish, Irish, Norse, Scots and Picts, and Manx. 
37. ↑ "The Heroic Age: Links". www.heroicage.org. Retrieved 2015-12-18. 
38. ↑ "The Heroic Age". Retrieved 2015-12-18. 
39. ↑ "Editorial Staff". www.heroicage.org. Retrieved 2015-12-15. Editors in Chief. L. J. Swain (Bemidji State University, MN) Interests: Insular Latin language and literature; History of the Book, Source and Textual Criticism of medieval texts and manuscripts; Old English language and literature, Medieval Linguistics, Medieval Exegesis; Deanna Forsman (North Hennepin Community College, Brooklyn Park, MN) Interests: Late Antiquity in the West, Merovingian Gaul, Contact between Britain and the Continent 
40. ↑ "thelonemedievalist". thelonemedievalist. Retrieved 2015-12-15. Larry Swain is currently the Chair of the English Department at Bemidji State University. As it happens, he is the only medievalist faculty member in the department. [...] Swain also edits the journal The Heroic Age (http://www.heroicage.org) and is involved in the Sources of Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture project and blogs at The Ruminate and Modern Medieval. 
41. ↑ "Celebrating Excellence 2014" (PDF). pp. 6–7. Retrieved 2015-12-15. Member of the college policy committee and numerous task forces, host of the 22nd Annual World History Association Conference, and board member for The Heroic Age: A Journal of Early Medieval Northwestern Europe, an international peer- reviewed journal are but a few examples of her service. 

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