Our thanks go to each of the contributors to this volume, as well as to all who participated in the conference at University College London in 2017, from which this book takes its title. We are grateful to University College London for funding that conference, and to the University of Reading for generous financial assistance during the final stage of this book’s publication.
We would also like to thank colleagues at University College London, the University of Bristol, and the University of Reading for their support throughout this process. In particular, thanks go to Professor Susanne Kord for her encouragement at the conference stage, to Professor Robert Vilain for advice on our book proposal, and to Dr Sophie Payne for compiling the index. Finally, we thank the team at Brill for their assistance at all stages of publication.