We are grateful to the British Library for permission to publish this material from Add. 8167; to the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, for permission to publish extracts from Fairfax 27; to the Master and Fellows of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, for permission to publish extracts from MS 297; to the Master and Fellows of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, for permission to publish extracts from MS 205/111; and to the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland, for permission to publish extracts from MS W. 15.
We are also grateful to the following for permission to reproduce images: The Bodleian Library, Oxford (Frontispiece); The British Library, London (Fig. 9); Cambridge University Library (Fig. 16); Canterbury Cathedral (Fig. 8); The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (Fig. 1); The Master and Fellows of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (Fig. 10); The Morgan Library and Museum, New York (Figs. 13, 15); The National Archives, London (Fig. 6); Dr. Stuart Whatling, www.medievalart.org.uk (Figs. 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 11, 12, 14).
We offer grateful acknowledgments to the University of Wisconsin– Milwaukee, the University of Hull, the British Academy, and the American Philosophical Society for generous financial assistance for this project.
We owe special thanks to Caroline Barron, who kindly read and commented on a substantial portion of this book in draft. We also gratefully acknowledge the generous assistance and advice of many friends and colleagues, including Martin Allen, Andrew Ayton, the late John Barron, Paul Brand, David Carpenter, David d’Avray, Faye Getz Cook, Anne DeWindt, Barbara Harvey, Julian Haseldine, Paul Hyams, Maryanne Kowaleski, Richard Leson, Richard Monti, Susan Reynolds, Richard Sharpe, Robert Stacey, Nicholas Vincent, Linda Ehrsam Voigts, and Stuart Whatling. We are also grateful for the comments and suggestions of the anonymous readers for the University of Pennsylvania Press of the draft proposal and manuscript of this volume. Any errors that remain in the text are ours alone.