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Article: From the editorial chair.
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- The La Trobe Journal
- Article date:
- September 22, 2008
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I was deeply honoured to have been asked by my friend and colleague John Barnes, in the year of his retirement as editor of The La Trobe Journal, if I would be guest editor of an issue devoted to medieval subjects, planned to coincide with the State Library's The Medieval Imagination exhibition and its associated programme of events.
When the issue was at the planning stage, I was concerned that I might not be able to garner sufficient material for a substantial edition. That those concerns were absurdly ill-founded became apparent very quickly, as nearly all the potential contributors whom I approached responded with alacrity, and as offers of other essays came ...