Acknowledgements
Nymphs have accompanied us for quite some time. Ever since developing the idea of moving Warburg’s ‘bewegtes Beiwerk’ to centre stage and dedicating a volume to the ubiquitous, yet eternally overlooked nymphs, we have explored the topic at a series of workshops and in various research contexts. The field was first charted in a series of panels at the Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting in Berlin in 2015. This was followed by the workshop “Nymphs in Early Modern Culture” held at the University of Münster in early 2016, which brought together panellists from the RSA meeting as well as a group of additional scholars. This workshop was financed by the Cluster of Excellence “Religion und Politik” of the University of Münster and by the Seminar für Lateinische Philologie des Mittelalters und der Neuzeit. At Freie Universität Berlin, the development of the volume has been closely linked to a project headed by Anita Traninger on the Spanish Golden Age novel, supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG) in the framework of the research group “Discursivizations of the New”. At the University of Münster, it is part of the project in the Cluster of Excellence entitled “Die neulateinische Emblematik. Die multimediale Gattung der neulateinischen (und mehrsprachigen) Emblematik als Vermittlerin politischen und religiösen Denkens, ca. 1530–ca. 1670”, directed by Karl Enenkel.
We owe thanks to Charlotte Bohn, who helped organise the Berlin panels, and Cornelia Selent, who took care of the administrative side of the Münster workshop. Yola von Rohden, Angie Martiens and Marie Lippert have supported us at various stages with editing and managing the production of the volume. Christian Peters gave us technical help with the illustrations. Millay Hyatt and Meredith McGroarty have taken care of English language editing. We are most grateful to all of them.
Berlin – Münster, 3 October 2017