Encomia is the annual Bibliographical Bulletin of the International Courtly Literature Society.  Its principal mission is to present recent bibliographical data relevant to the scholarly interests of the Society; these entries include books, articles, and reviews published wherever the Society has national branches.  In addition, Encomia offers twenty to thirty reviews of newly published books. 

Encomia is distributed free of charge to members of the Society and is available by subscription to libraries, booksellers, and agencies. 
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 The entries in Encomia are provided by bibliographers belonging to the various national branches of the ICLS and are limited to works published in the countries of those branches.  Each branch has its own team of bibliographers, headed by a Coordinator.  The individual Coordinators submit their data to Encomia’s International Bibliographer, who turns the various contributions into a single compilation.  

The style of the entries is consistent within each branch’s area but varies somewhat across the entire volume, according to particular national conventions.  Every branch’s bibliography, however, is divided into the same four sections:  Collections (edited volumes, conference proceedings, Festschriften, and the like), Texts (editions,  translations, adaptations), Studies (critical and historical articles and books), and Reviews.  Most entries include some descriptive or evaluative commentary provided by the individual bibliographers.  All modern scholars represented in the several branch bibliographies are listed in a single, comprehensive Index of Authors; likewise, all medieval writers, titles, and topics are listed in a comprehensive Index of Subjects.

Alongside its principal mission, Encomia has developed an important second purpose: to present reviews of recently published books reflective of the Society’s interests. These reviews, somewhere between twenty and thirty in number, may be written in any one of the three official languages of the ICLS, while the works reviewed may be in any language and stem from publishers anywhere in the world. The selection of books to be reviewed depends on recommendations made to the Editor, and it is the Editor who has the responsibility of finding appropriate reviewers.  Reviewers are not necessarily members of the International Courtly Literature Society. 

Finally, Encomia may present other matter pertaining to particular interests and events within the Society, notably, memorial essays and news of the Society’s latest triennial congress.

Encomia is published as nearly as possible on an annual basis.  Its cover date has normally been two years beyond the date of the bibliographical entries that it contains. Volume 28, dated 2006, with data for 2004, appeared in the spring of 2008.  Volume 29-30 (2007-2008), a double issue covering 2005 and 2006, appeared in February 2009.  It includes, for the first time, surveys of works published in the past few years in Japan and in Eastern Europe. The next issue, volume 31, with data for the year 2007, is scheduled for publication in late 2009.

Volume 26 (2004) was accompanied by a searchable CD-ROM containing all bibliographical material published in volumes 20-26; the expectation is that a similar cumulative electronic resource will be offered (to individual members of the ICLS, for personal use only) after another few years of publication.

Encomia is distributed free of charge to all members of the Society and is made available by subscription to agencies, libraries, and booksellers.  For subscriptions, please contact A-R Editions, Inc., 8551 Research Way (Suite 180), Middleton WI 53562, U.S.A. info@areditions.com.

Since 2005, the Editor has been Samuel N. Rosenberg (Professor Emeritus, French and Italian, Indiana University-Bloomington), now succeeded as of 1/1/2010 by Logan Whalen (University of Oklahoma). The International Bibliographer is Tania Van Hemelryck (Professeur, Études romanes, Université Catholique de Louvain).  Members of the ICLS and other readers are invited to contact them with comments, questions, recommendations for future issues, and so forth.  They may be reached by e-mail at lwhalen@ou.edu and  tania.vanhemelryck@uclouvain.be