JIHI 10(2021) n. 20

Editorial: Images and the JIHI

Enrico Pasini

Four novelty items characterize this issue of the JIHI:

1. A new kind of Notes. Notes in the JIHI are another kind of papers, that mostly contain ex-post methodological reflexions on interdisciplinary research (‘research reports’), ‘review-interviews’ and other forms of discussions and debates, short papers on peculiar subjects, digital scholarship of various kinds, and the like. We welcome in this issue a group of Notes (papers n. 4 to 7) that are tied together by the interdisciplinary project­ of an online portal that will be publishing sources for the history of human rights—an enthralling theme, as well as a new kind in our open taxonomy.

2. A new acknowledgment. We do not necessarily love journal rankings or citation databases, but when they give us some sort of thumbs up it is inevitable that we rejoice. Scopus has newly communicated to us very favorable reviews and accepted the JIHI for future indexing.

3. A new subject area. During the years, we have published articles that variously connected the history of science, of philosophy, and of gastronomy, the history of literature, economy, political thought, theatre, and the law; we have looked at Hippocrates and Luther, dragons and rivers, and in this issue, for the first time, we have a paper that touches the history of art (together with military history and Early-Modern philosophy).

4. A new Call for Papers. Calls for papers and thematic issues are an important part of an academic journal. The history and development of how humans expressed and formalized their relations to nature has been a recurrent theme in the JIHI in the last three years. Thanks to Rodrigo Míguez Núñez we publish (in the following item of this issue) a new CFP on “Nature and Property”. Invited and accepted contributions will appear in the issue of mid-2023. This CFP is similar to the last one on “Epidemics and Regulations”, in that it keeps an ambitious balance of contemporary questions and of the historical approach that is consubstantial with our Journal. It is for us a very enticing challenge.