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This book is dedicated to Jeremy Goldberg and Felicity Riddy who supervised my doctoral thesis on medieval single women at the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York. I hope they enjoy what I have done with some of the earlier ideas and research.
Of course, this project has incurred numerous other intellectual and personal debts, and it is difficult to untangle them, but I am pleased to be able to acknowledge at least some of them here. Particular thanks must go to John Arnold, for being a reader and sounding‐board throughout, regardless of the state of the text or of my mood. Judith Bennett has offered support from an early stage of this project and I am particularly grateful for the time she has spent writing letters of reference and commenting on the penultimate draft. I am also indebted to Steve Rigby and an anonymous reader for Oxford University Press for their feedback on the penultimate manuscript. Sharon Farmer, Lucy Grig, and Shannon McSheffrey all agreed to read draft chapters, and Pauline Stafford to act as a referee for my AHRC application. Indeed, I am grateful to the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the University of Edinburgh for supporting my research and, in particular, for granting me research leave, which allowed me to finish this study. The Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland and the School of History and Classics at Edinburgh also provided funds for the final checking of archival material. Thanks must go to the staff of the various archives and libraries used and, at Oxford University Press, to Ruth Parr, Anne Gelling, and Rupert Cousens for their enthusiasm and efficiency. Countless people helped in various ways but I would like to single out the following: at Edinburgh, Pertti Ahonen, Donald Bloxham, Andrew Brown, Abigail Burnyeat, Kirsten Fenton, Francesca Locatelli, Sergi Mainer, Katie Stephenson, and Cheryl Ruiz; those who have continued to offer support beyond the York days, Debbie Cannon, Isabel Davis, Meg Gay, Joanna Huntington, Katherine Lewis, and Kim Phillips; and from school Latin classes to the present day, Jane Keating. I would, of course, like to acknowledge the love and support of my family: Judith, Derek, and my sisters, Emma and Naomi, who between them produced five children in the time it took me to produce this study.
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