Acknowledgements
When a book takes as long as this one has to complete (though other projects intervened), one has many, many people to thank. Many thanks are due to Glyn S. Burgess for his help with the translations from the Old French (though any errors remaining are of course my own), to Ian Short for his guidance regarding Wace manuscripts in particular, to Michael Barich for his assistance with some of the Latin translations (especially for those where I have elected to substitute my translations of the First Variant for David Burchmore’s edition/translation), to David Burchmore for his willingness to share his manuscript of the First Variant before it was published, and to the anonymous reader for Brill for his invaluable assistance throughout the process.
Many thanks go to Kenyon College for financial and other support (including letters of introduction time and again), to Graham Coursey (Kenyon College Library Access Services Manager) for his never-ending patience with my myriad requests for Interlibrary Loan items and his very prompt and gracious efficiency, to the IRHT in Paris for their generosity during my many visits to consult their archives and manuscripts on microfilm, to the Bibliothèque nationale de France, the Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève, and the Bibliothèque de l’Arsenal for their generosity as well, and to the National Endowment for the Humanities for summer assistance early on in this project.
Last but not least, infinite thanks are due to Marcella Mulder, my sponsoring editor at Brill, without whose gracious assistance this book would never have appeared, to Theo Joppe for his patience and excellent work and the entire production staff at Brill, to my daughter Edwina Finefrock who has shared me enthusiastically with King Arthur for what seems like eons, and to my husband, Jack, for whose editorial advice and assiduous never-ending support I will always be grateful.
If there are people and institutions whose names do not appear here, I hope they will realize that this is due to my oversight, and not to any lack of gratitude.