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The book is a medieval technology still in continued use today. One of its loveliest characteristics is that it allows us to record in words, right here as part of the finished item, some of the collaborative effort that goes into its production. While medieval poets weaved acknowledgements of their patrons into their stories so that they would not get lost, the academic books of our time usually lavish a separate section on the acknowledgements: this one.
The idea for this book, as well as almost half of its chapters, originated from a conference also entitled The Middle Ages in the Modern World, held at the University of St Andrews in June 2013, to coincide with this medieval university’s 600th anniversary. Our first thanks are therefore due to each one of the 198 participants and speakers who made this conference into such a memorable event. We still fondly recall the buzz, the feeling that medievalism was having its moment, and have heard the same from many of those who had been present. The University of St Andrews, its School of English, School of Modern Languages and the St Andrews Institute for Mediaeval Studies kindly supported the event financially and logistically, and many of our colleagues and students took on substantial amounts of work organising and staffing the conference, in particular the conference’s secretary, Claire Pascolini-Campbell, and a fantastic community of then postgraduate medievalists, Tamara Bowler, Julia Essenburg, Jane Fischer, Valentina Grub, Lydia Hayes, Ingrid Ivarsen, Jennifer Key, Christian Livermore, James Page and Miriam Rune. We are grateful also to the British Academy Events Fund for helping us to bring Terry Jones and Patrick Geary to this conference and also to the British Academy in London, and to the Russell Trust for supporting the contributions of Felicitas Hoppe and Seamus Heaney at the conference. The Middle Ages in the Modern World (MAMO) has now become a biennial conference series, thanks to Andrew Elliott and Joanna Huntington taking the mantle in Lincoln in 2015, and Anke Bernau, David Matthews and James Paz in Manchester in 2017.
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