Acknowledgements
The idea to create this volume arose from the workshop “Gaining Imperial Favour: Competition and Cooperation in Late Antiquity” that we organized at Tübingen in December 2016. Our first words of thanks, therefore, are to all those who helped us organize this event and contributed to its fruitful discussions. We also express our gratitude to our colleagues visiting or based in Tübingen for providing the stimulating intellectual environment in which this book came into being. It has, without doubt, profited from the expertise in the field of late-antique studies that the University of Tübingen can boast. We are especially indebted to Olivier Hekster, who agreed to include the volume in the Impact of Empire series. The editorial team at Brill owes our recognition for formatting and producing the book; Giulia Moriconi deserves special mention for leading us through the entire process. We further thank the publishers for calling upon the expertise of two peer reviewers. Their valuable comments, observations, and recommendations enhanced the quality of individual papers and the entire book. We are also grateful for the assistance and inspiration that Raphael Hunsucker provided during his time on our project: he helped us in revising the contributions and refining our own ideas for the volume. Its texts, up to the finest details, would not have taken their final shape without the support of our student assistants David Lüllemann, Christoph Hammer, and Johannes Gradel. No less important was Adrian Lukas Smith’s contribution in proofreading the English and making it more idiomatic.
Thanks to all contributors for their papers and their patience!
Lastly, thanks are due to the German Research Foundation (DFG) without whose generous funding, our project “Power and Influence: Influencing Emperors between Antiquity and the Middle Ages” would not have seen the light.