We wish to extend our sincere thanks to the many institutions and individuals who have assisted in the making of this book. We have received generous support from the British Academy in the form of a Conference Grant for a meeting of most of the volumeâs contributors in 2021 at the British School at Rome. Abigail Brundin and the BSR have also provided support, hospitality, and assistance to the editors as they prepared images for the book. It is fair to say that we are both fortunate to work at institutions with considerable financial resources without which this volume would have been infinitely more difficult to produce, if not impossible. Kingâs College, Cambridge, and the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Cambridge have provided financial support in the form of Fellowsâ Research Grants (from the former) and a Cambridge Humanities Research Grant and Academic Expenses Funds (from the latter), which have enabled us to produce maps professionally, check and edit the primary sources and bibliographies, permitted us to work together in Cambridge and Rome for brief periods, and to pay for image permissions. The Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn has contributed significant funds towards student assistance with the formatting of the volume, indexing, and the redrawing of maps and images, for image reproduction cost, and for travel between Bonn and Cambridge. The University of Sheffield provided support for the preparation of the British Academy conference grant; the American Academy in Rome has helped identify images.
Collegial thanks are due to Chris Wickham and Robin Osborne, who have heard a good deal about the project and offered sage advice at critical moments. Azime Can, Josephine Probst, and Oliver Parkes skillfully wrangled the sprawling bibliographies into consistent forms; Azime Can, Josephine Probst, and Dorka Kintli have helped to produce the indices, and Carmen Rac has redrawn maps and images. The two anonymous peer reviewers for Brill provided constructive critique and saved us from many errors, and we would like to thank them for their effort. We would also like to thank each other. Over the last six years we often spoke weekly, sometimes daily, while we designed the volume and recruited contributors, applied for funding, edited and translated the chapters, checked references, liaised with authors, corresponded with the publisher, co-wrote the introduction, copy-edited, arranged for map and other drawings, hunted images and image permissions, corrected proofs and compiled the indices, and, simultaneously, parented four children, lost
As this book entered production, Dennis Trout passed away (â 6 October 2025). He had checked the final proofs of his article and sent them back with characteristic enthusiasm and good cheer. His erudition and collegiality has contributed not only to this volume but also to the wider field of late antique Rome. He is much missed.