Acknowledgements
This volume has its origins in a series of sessions at the International Medieval Congress at the University of Leeds (2017, 2018) and a one-day conference at the University of Cambridge in March 2019, The Life Course in Early Medieval England, which was supported by the Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literature. We would like to thank our contributors for developing their chapters with such dedication and good grace, despite working in the midst of a global pandemic. We also wish to thank the anonymous reader at Brill for their insightful comments and suggestions, which have greatly improved the book. From the proposal stage of this book’s ‘life course’ to its publication, Kat Tracy, Kate Hammond, Dinah Rapliza, and Marcella Mulder at Brill have offered all the support, enthusiasm, and careful guidance that we could have wished for – we would like to express our sincere thanks to all four for making this process a pleasure.
We are furthermore grateful for support and assistance from Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge, Lincoln College, University of Oxford, and the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society. We are greatly indebted to colleagues who have generously given their time to advise us, and we would especially like to thank Helen Appleton, Emily Kesling, Francis Leneghan, Andy Orchard, and Christine Voth. Of course, any remaining errors are very much our own. Lastly, special thanks go to Amos van Baalen for his invaluable assistance with editorial work.