Acknowledgments
I should like to thank the many individuals and institutions whose aid, support, and advice have made this study possible. Travel grants from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Graduate School and the Division of InterÂnational Scholars and Studies at the University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee helped to underwrite much of my work in libraries and archives overseas.
My department and the College of Letters and Science of the University of WisconÂsin—Milwaukee from time to time gave me dispensation from teaching and other duties; without their help the task would have been far more taxing, more difficult, and more protracted. A visiting fellowship at Clare Hall in the UniverÂsity of Cambridge provided me not only with the base of operations from which I conducted much of my manuscript research, but also with congenial companÂionship and intellectual stimulus in one of this planets loveliest settings. I am grateful to the president and Fellows for admitting me to their company. I wrote the first draft of this book in Chicago, while I was a Fellow of the Newberry Library. I should like to thank the president and staff of the Newberry, espeÂcially Richard Brown, Paul Gehl, Mary Beth Rose, Paul Saenger, and John Tedeschi, as well as the National Endowment for the Humanities, for their supÂport, encouragement, and genial hospitality.I have drawn upon material in the collections of numerous other libraries, in addition to the Newberry. I am particularly indebted to the patience and coopÂeration of librarians and staffs of the Institute of Medieval Canon Law in the Law School (Boalt Hall) of the University of California at Berkeley; the UniverÂsity Library in Cambridge; the Institute of Historical Research in London; the Memorial Library of the University of Wisconsin in Madison; the Golda Meier Library of the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee; the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies in Toronto; and the foreign law division of the Library of Congress in Washington.
In addition I gratefully acknowledge permission from the following to pubÂlish excerpts from manuscripts in their collections:
The Stiftsbibliothek, Admont;
The Archivo de la Corona de Aragon, Barcelona;
The Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris;
The British Library, London;
Acknowledgments
The Syndics of Cambridge University Library;
The Syndics of the Fitzwilliam Museum;
The Master and Fellows of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge;
The Henry Charles Lea Library, Department of Special Collections, Van Pelt Library, University of Pennsylvania;
The Provost and Fellows of King’s College, Cambridge;
The Library of Congress, Washington;
The Master and Fellows of Pembroke College, Cambridge;
The Master and Fellows of Peterhouse, Cambridge;
The Master and Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge;
The Prefect of the Vatican Library.
Both my readers and I have benefited from the willingness of friends and colleagues to read and comment on the manuscript of this book at various stages in its long gestation. In particular I wish to thank: Vern L. Bullough, Charles Donahue, Jr., DeLloyd Guth, Richard H. Helmholz, Michael Hoeflich, the late John F. McGovern, and Kenneth Pennington. I have also learned much— and shamelessly appropriated much—from discussions of this project with other scholars. The list of them is much too long to reproduce here in full; but I owe special thanks for ideas, insights, information, encouragement, and answers to various queries to: Martin Brett, Christopher Brooke, the late Christopher Cheney, Mary Cheney, Marjorie Chibnall, Giles Constable, Charles and Ann Duggan, Sir Geoflfey Elton, Richard Fraher, Gerard Fransen, Jean Gaudemet, John Gilchrist, Penny Schine Gold, Grethe Jacobsen, Sam Jaffe, Claudia JohnÂson, John Kenney, Julius Kirshner, Stephan Kuttner, Peter Landau, Jean Le- clercq, Peter Linehan, Elizabeth Makowski, Knut Wolfgang Nδrr, the HonorÂable John T. Noonan, Jr., Glenn Olsen, Dorothy Owen, Nancy Partner, Hans Pawlisch, Larry Rosen, Bernhard Schimmelpfennig, Barbara Seater, Carole Shammas, Michael Sheehan, Peter Stein, Kris Utterback, Sue Sheridan Walker, Alan Watson, and Rudolph Weigand, among many others.
My greatest debt of all is to my wife, Victoria Brundage; she alone knows just how great it is.