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  • Parergon Editor's Foreword
  • Anne M. Scott

In 'Thinking About Magic in Medieval and Early Modern Europe', guest editor Tracy Adams of the University of Auckland has brought together scholars working in philosophy, literature, the history of medicine, social history, and the history of textiles, to examine the systems of thought that made different notions of magic thinkable in medieval and early modern Europe. Parergon welcomes the interdisciplinary nature of this collection and the geographical range of the authors whose subjects cover material from France, Scotland, the Low Countries, England, and, in one case, references nineteenth- and twentieth-century Australia. Thanks are due to Tracy Adams for initially commissioning the essays and then collaborating with the Parergon editor and individual authors to bring the collection to fruition.

In addition to the six articles, and the usual reviews, readers will find a new section called Miscellanea . Under this heading we intend to publish miscellaneous 'Notes', as well as reviews of exhibitions, performances, recordings, and events that are especially noteworthy in pushing the boundaries of Medieval and Early Modern Studies in Australia and New Zealand. Our first 'Note' appears here, as does a review of the National Gallery of Victoria's exhibition: The Four Horsemen: Apocalypse, Death and Disaster, 31 August 2012-28 January 2013.

I particularly wish to thank Lesley O'Brien for her scholarly approach to copy-editing, as well for the many other tasks she undertakes in shepherding the journal into print, and Toby Burrows for his attention both to the Reviews and to the presence of the journal in the digital environment. [End Page viii]

Anne M. Scott
The University of Western Australia
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