Fiona Somerset - Feeling Like Saints: Lollard Writings after Wyclif

For my many interlocutors and readers over the course of the time I have been writing this book: I know how much I have learned from you, and from your published work. There is little room left over in a long book for footnotes. My first draft was replete with descriptions of your work, praise for your contributions to the field, and thanks for your generosity in conversation. Much of that is now gone, but I know my debts, and so do you.

I can at least acknowledge some of them here. First, to institutions. I am grateful to the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada for the generous three-year research grant that allowed me to lay the groundwork for this book. Duke University supported me generously with research leaves and grants: I am especially grateful to Maureen Quilligan, Karla Holloway, Houston Baker, Priscilla Wald, Gregson Davis, and Srinivas Aravamudan for their support. A Faculty Book Manuscript Workshop grant from the Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke allowed me to present a full draft of the book to a range of colleagues outside my field: I thank Ian Baucom for administering this grant and chairing the session. The National Humanities Center provided me with a research leave in 20056 during which I was able to draft large parts of this book and finish two other books. I thank the marvellous staff and especially the librarians of the center, who brokered many extended interlibrary loans for me. I am grateful to my new colleagues at the University of Connecticut for welcoming me and helping me to negotiate my move without losing research momentum, and to Wayne Franklin for finding me summer research support in 2012. We may all be grateful for a subvention from UCONNs CLAS Book Support Award fund, which assisted with production costs and has reduced the price of the resulting book.

It is a pleasure to thank friends and colleagues, each named only once although some have worn many hats. Those who taught me: Jay Schleusener, Christina von Nolcken, Andy Galloway, Pete Wetherbee, Tom Hill, Anne Hudson, Norman Kretzmann. Collaborators: Nicholas Watson, Jill Havens, Derrick Pitard, Patrick Hornbeck, Steve Lahey. Editors of my work: Margaret Aston, Colin Richmond, Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski, Nancy Warren, Larry Scanlon, James Simpson, Helen Barr, Ann Hutchison, Mishtooni Bose, Amy Hollywood, Patricia Beckman, Alexandra Gillespie, Daniel Wakelin, Michael Van Dussen, Pavel Soukup, Caroline Palmer, Helen Spencer. Readers of drafts of this book, in whole or in part: Shannon McSheffrey, John Arnold, John Martin, Robert Swanson, Sarah McNamer, Rob Lutton, Dan Hobbins, Andrew Cole, Sarah Beckwith, Fred Biggs, Barbara Rosenwein. Fellows and helpers: Ralph Hanna, Margaret Connolly, Susan Einbinder, Liz Schirmer, Michael Kuczynski, Michael G. Sargent, Alastair Minnis, Louisa Burnham, Richard Firth Green, Suzanne Conklin Akbari, Wendy Scase, John Thompson, Ruth Nisse, Mary Dove, Henry Ansgar Kelly, Sabrina Corbellini, Maureen Jurkowski, Elisabeth Salter, Andrew Kraebel, Kathleen Kennedy, Matti Peikola, Kate Rudy, Nicole Rice, Amy Appleford, Robyn Malo, Simon Hunt, Vincent Gillespie, Kathryn Kerby-Fulton, Ryan Perry, Stephen Kelly, Margriet Hoogvliet, Ethan Knapp, Mike Johnston, Caroline Bruzelius, Mark Pegg, Lucie Dolealov, Rachel Koopmans, Clare Costley-Kingoo, Ian Levy, Zach Stone, Fred Moten, Jehangir Malegam, William Reddy. Students, who are often readers and colleagues as well: Mary Raschko, Matt Irvin, Cord Whitaker, Jack Harding Bell, William Revere, Jim Knowles, David Watt, Heather Mitchell, Sarah McLaughlin, Leah Schwebel. Copyeditor extraordinaire: Michael Cornett.

At Cornell University Press, I thank Peter Potter for his editorial acumen and good advice, as well as Kitty Liu, Karen Hwa, Susan Barnett, and other production staff.

For permission to publish excerpts from manuscripts in their care I gladly acknowledge the Cambridge University Library and the Master and Fellows of Sidney Sussex College and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge; Lambeth Palace Library; and in Oxford, the Bodleian Library as well as the Master and Fellows of Trinity College. My warm gratitude to the libraries and librarians who have facilitated my research on this book would take pages to detail.

No part of this book has been published before in similar form. However, some claims and some turns of phrase may repeat those made in introducing lollard writings to new audiences in Wycliffite Spirituality (WS), in a forthcoming article on textual transmission first presented at a comparative conference on religious controversy in Prague, and in a forthcoming contribution to conference proceedings from a comparative conference on fifteenth-century religion in Bochum: Textual Transmission, Variance, and Religious Identity among Lollard Pastoralia, in Religious Controversy in Europe, 13781536: Textual Transmission and Networks of Readership, ed. Michael Van Dussen and Pavel Soukup (Turnhout: Brepols, 2013), 71104; Lollards, Devotion, and Knowledge from an English Perspective, in Die Devotio Moderna, ed. Iris Kwiatkowski and Jrg Engelbrecht (Mnster: Aschendorff, 2013), 14155. I thank my collaborators, editors, and the audiences for this related work for helping me to hone the final form of the arguments presented here.