Megan Leitch - Romancing Treason: The Literature of the Wars of Roses

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Many people have supported me in writing this book, both directly and indirectly, and I am delighted to be able to express my gratitude here. Dan Wakelin and Helen Fulton both gave very valuable suggestions when examining the doctoral version of this book, as did the anonymous readers for Oxford University Press at a later stage. Various other medievalists assisted by kindly proof-reading chapters, offering encouragement, or discussing interesting ideas (both apposite and otherwise) at conferences and in library tea rooms and departmental corridors, including the following: Elizabeth Archibald, Joanna Bellis, Venetia Bridges, Aisling Byrne, Rob Gossedge, Sara Harris, Joni Henry, David Johnson, Amy Kaufman, Jessica Lockhart, Andrew Lynch, Margaret McCarthy, Megan Murton, Carl Phelpstead, Ad Putter, Robert Rouse, Cory Rushton, Corinne Saunders, Danica Summerlin, Kevin Whetter, and Emily Wingfield.

In its dissertation form, the writing of this book benefited from the generous support of the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission, the Cambridge University International Scholarship Scheme, the St Johns College Benefactors Scholarships, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Thanks are also due to the Bibliothque Nationale, the Bodleian Library, the British Library, and Cambridge University Library for permission to consult their collections of manuscripts and early printed books.

Earlier versions of parts of this book have appeared as Speaking (of) Treason in Malorys Morte Darthur,Arthurian Literature, XXVII (2010), 10334, and Thinking Twice about Treason in Caxtons Prose Romances: Proper Chivalric Conduct and the English Printing Press, Medium Aevum, LXXXI.1 (2012), 4169. I am grateful to the editors of these journals for permission to develop this published material here.

My warmest thanks are due to Sin Echard, for first engaging my interest in this topic when I had the pleasure of taking her undergraduate module on medieval Arthurian literature; and most especially to Helen Cooper, who supervised both my M.Phil. and my Ph.D. with more wisdom, generosity, insight, and encouragement than I could ever have asked for. (p.vi)