For valued assistance during the writing of this book, I wish to thank the following organizations and people: the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council’s Writers’ Reserve program, the Markin-Flanagan Distinguished Writers Program at the University of Calgary, the Banff Centre for the Arts, the City of Ottawa, the Ottawa International Writers Festival, Dean Cooke, Roberta Major, Doug Little and Louise Thibault-Little, Susan and Edward Norman, Lise Rochefort and Adrian Jones, Dianne Bos and Harry Vandervlist, and, at every step, Peter Norman. And the deeply generous Stephen Brockwell, who sent me to Spain.
Special thanks for vision, talent, and faith to everyone who made this book a reality, especially Barbara Pulling, Heather Sangster, Shelagh Armstrong, and the entire truly remarkable team at Annick.
Hundreds of excellent books and articles were consulted in the researching of this book, but the two books I returned to again and again for both inspiration and direction were The Origins of the Inquisition in Fifteenth-Century Spain by Benzion Netanyahu and The End of Days by Erna Paris.
My research would not have been possible without the Ottawa and Calgary public libraries and the university libraries of Ottawa, Carleton, and Calgary.
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