Acknowledgments

This book would not have been possible without the help of a great many people. My thanks to the institutions that provided grants, invitations, and materials: the Arizona State University Library (special thanks to Julie Tanaka), Bibliothèque nationale de France, British Library, Burgerbibliothek of Berne, Flint Institute of Arts, Getty Museum, Institute for Advanced Study, KBR/Royal Library of Belgium, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Met Cloisters (special thanks to Barbara Drake Boehm, Michael Carter, Griffith Mann, Leslie Bussis Tait, Nancy Wu, and the staff of the Thomas J. Watson Library), the National Humanities Center, and the Bancroft Library at the University of California Berkeley. My thanks to those who maintain ARLIMA and HathiTrust, indispensable resources.

For their assistance, encouragement, hospitality, invitations, and support, my sincerest thanks to Chris Baswell, Jessalynn Bird, Brigitte Buettner, Joyce Coleman, Giles Constable, Lisa Cooper, Marilynn Desmond, Nicola Di Cosmo, Elizabeth Emery, Christine Gadrat-Ouerfelli, Patrick Geary, Bryan Keene, Mario Klarer, Kate Loysen, Deborah McGrady, Laura Morreale, Elizabeth Morrison, Gabriella Parussa, Lisa Pochmalicki, Isabelle Ragnard, Claudia Rapp, Nancy Regalado, David Robinson, Darwin Smith, Kathryn Smith, Helen Solterer, Zrinka Stahuljak, Richard Stoneman, Ryan Thum, Chet Van Duzer, Evelyn Birge Vitz, Scott Waugh, David Wrisley, and Pauline Yu.

Thank you to my colleagues at Arizona State University: Azadeh Alavi, Mariana Bahtchevanova, Nina Berman, Steve Bokenkamp, Frederic Canovas, Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, Joe Cutter, Daniel Gilfillan, Isaac Joslin, Xiaoqiao Ling, Young Oh, Andrew Ross, Juliann Vitullo, and Steve West, and to my students and research assistants: Sophie Aprotosoaie-Kardos, Jenna Caneva, Victoria Choin, Glenn Maur, Micah McCreary, Kimberly Peloquin, and Catherine Woner.

A special thank you to M. Cecilia Gaposchkin, Mahinder Kingra, Anne E. Lester, Gordon Thompson, the Cornell University Press editorial and production team, and the anonymous reviewers, who greatly improved this book.

Dank je aan Hilde, voor alles.