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A C K N O W L E D G M E N T S Over the course of writing this book I have built up many debts and garnered much encouragement. It is now my great pleasure to acknowledge those debts and thank those who have helped and encouraged me. I have worked on this projectin manyplaces.The History Department at the University of Minnesota was its first home. There I found a collegial group of scholars who supported me both formallyand informally. In particular I want to thank Barbara Hanawalt, who helped nurture this book from its earliest incarnations to its final form as a book. Throughout it all, she has remained enthusiastic and supportive about the project. In England, I am grateful to all the staff of all the archives I worked in, but especially those at the Somerset Record Office where I did most of my research. At SUNY-New Paltz, the History Department, and in particular Carole Levin, now of the Universityof Nebraska, provided further encouragement for the often difficult process of revising a manuscript while also learning how to be a professor. At the Harvard Divinity School, where I was a ResearchAssociate and Visiting Lecturer in the Women's Studies in Religion Program, Clarissa Atkinson, Deborah Valenze, Susan Shapiro, Amina Wadud, Carol Karlsen, and Rebecca Krawiec all listened patientlyand asked thought-provoking questions as I talked about my ideas about what it meant to belong to a medieval parish. The long process of writing a book is also not possible without a great deal of financial support. The History Department at the Universityof Minnesota and an Eileen Power Fellowship from the London School of Economics provided support for both travel and research, and a Charlotte W.Newcombe Fellowship allowed me the luxury of writing full time. At SUNY-New Paltz, the Dean of Liberal Arts, the AcademicVice President, and several Research and Creative Projects Awards provided further research funds for trips to England and the Newberry Library in Chicago. Although I was officially working on another project, my year at the Harvard Divinity School made completing this book possible. In dealing with the particulars of assembling this book, James Stokes and Robert Alexander shared with me their in-depth knowledge of Somerset sources, and Robert Palmer shared his as yet unpublished work with me to help my discussion of legal jurisdictions.I also want to thankJai Kasturi who created much of my appendix, Stephen Hana who drew the maps, and the Courtauld Institute of Art in London, Fred H. Crossley,Maurice H. Ridgway F. S.A., Dr. Christopher Wilson, and the National Monuments Record Centre for permission to use their photographs. I also want to thank Manchester University Press for permission to reprint my article "Parochial Fund-Raising in Late Medieval Somerset."The anonymous reader at the University of Pennsylvania Press and Robert Swanson saved me from manymistakes.Both took great pains with my manuscript, and it is a much better book for their efforts. Remaining errors are of course my own. One of the joys of academic work is the intertwining of friendship and intellectual exchange. In addition to those named above, I would also like to thank the following people for their help on this book. Help comes in many forms: Some read drafts, often at the last minute. They did so cheerfully and willingly. Others talked to me endlessly about myideas, helping me to explain them better, and most at one time or another pulled me away from my computer and reminded me that allwork and no play is boring. Mydeep felt thanks and appreciation to Sandy Bardsley, David Benson, Clive Burgess, Eric Carlson , Jay Carter, Sue and Russell Clarke, Gary Gibbs, Edmund Kern, Rebecca Krugg, Beat Kumin, Caroline Litzenberger, Shannon McSheffrey, Maureen Morrow, Stella Neiman, Oliver and Caroline Nicholson, Allyson Poska, Gary Shaw, Tim Spurgin, and Dan Swartz. Lastly, I owe mybiggest debts, emotional, financial, and grammatical,to my family, my parents David and Louise, and my brothers Andrew,Stephen,J. D. and Jim Ciulik, and their wives, Lisa, Peg,Jane, and Kirsten. Although usually mystified bywhyI am so interested in this time-period, theynevertheless share my interest in wanting to know how things fit together. This book is for them. viii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS [44.199.212.254] Project MUSE (2024-03-28 16:31 GMT) A man who was once asked why he did not weep at a sermon when everyone else was shedding tears replied: "I don't belong...