CFP: Medieval World (encyclopedia) (no deadline noted)

Dear Colleague,

On behalf of the editorial board, I invite writers to contribute one or
more articles to The Encyclopedia of Society and Culture in the Medieval
World. This four-volume set will be published by Facts On File in
conjunction with another four-volume set, The Encyclopedia of Society and
Culture in the Ancient World. Writing for the Medieval World set will take
place under the direction of the editor in chief, Pam Crabtree, with the
aid of a board of editorial advisers for separate regions of the world. I
am the board editor for the Asia and Pacific section.

The four-volume Medieval World set covers the fall of Rome to the start
of the Renaissance, which in Asia and Pacific terms would be from the mid
part of the first millennium A.D. to European contact. The entries are
arranged A to Z by 71 headwords, from "adornment" through "writing" and
including such topics as art, death and burial practices, education,
natural disasters, science, and trade and exchange. Each entry (headword)
is composed of an introduction that outlines the major developments in
chronological sequence, followed by subsections on five major regions:
Europe, Africa, Asia and the Pacific, the Americas, and the Islamic World.
The regional subsections under most of the entry terms will be about 1,665
words in length. The regional subsections for fourteen major topics (such
as "art" and "social organization") will be covered in 4,000 words. The
set is meant for high-school or community-college use and for the general
public. Authors will be provided renumeration, depending on the length of
the article.

If you have an interest in participating, please write to the project
manager, Marcia Merryman Means, at marcia@schlagergroup.com. We also
welcome graduate student authors for these entries and would appreciate it
if you could pass on this message to any of your graduate students you
think might be interested.

Sincerely,

Dr. Laura Junker, Associate Professor of Anthropology,
University of Illinois at Chicago