CAA News
CAA Monographs Are Now E-Books
Through a partnership with the ACLS Humanities E-Book Project, CAA is pleased to announce that a number of volumes from the CAA Monographs Series, many long out of print, are now being reissued as e-books, available as online downloads and CD-ROMs, and in print-on-demand (POD) format, at www.historyebook.org.
A richly illustrated, twelfth-century manuscript from Cluny, in the collection of the Palatine Library of Parma, is the subject of Meyer Schapiro’s CAA monograph, The Parma Ildefonsus: A Romanesque Illuminated Manuscript from Cluny and Related Works (1964).
Among the titles that are being reissued are Meyer Schapiro’s The Parma Ildefonsus: A Romanesque Illuminated Manuscript from Cluny and Related Works (1964); John Clarke’s Roman Black-and-White Figural Mosaics (1979); Brigette Buettner’s Boccaccio’s Des cleres et noble femmes: Systems of Signification in an Illuminated Manuscript (1996); and others.
The ACLS Humanities E-Book Project (HEB) is a nonprofit venture, originally funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, offered by the American Council of Learned Societies in collaboration with ten learned societies, nearly eighty contributing publishers, and librarians at the University of Michigan’s Scholarly Publishing Office. The result is an online, fully searchable collection of high-quality books in the humanities, recommended and reviewed by scholars and featuring unlimited multiuser access and free, downloadable MARC records. HEB is available on- and off-campus through standard web browsers.
The CAA Monograph series began in 1944. Between that year and 1999, CAA published one or more books annually on focused monographic subjects in art history, fifty-eight in all, primarily on topics on classical, medieval, and Renaissance art.
The Humanities E-Book Project has also begun a newsletter, entitled HEB News. This first issue of this quarterly publication contains updates on the transition from the ACLS History E-Book Project to ACLS Humanities E-Book; it also announces important new HEB partnerships and titles. HEB News is available as a PDF download at www.humanitiesebook.org/hebnews.html.