Franciscan Poverty

acknowledgements

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The 1961 edition was published while I was an Assistant Lecturer at Reading University. I was grateful to the Research Board for a grant towards publication costs; still more for their generosity in electing me to their Research Fellowship to enable me to continue in academic life. Professor E. F. Jacob gave me advice; Mr. W. A. Pantin and Rev. Dr. D. Callus O.P., references; Dr. D. Douie and Dr. M. Reeves advice and a generous loan of books. The President and Fellows of Trinity College, Oxford, by a scholarship subsidized my work as a research student, and my tutors, Mr. M. Maclagen and Mr. J. P. Cooper gave me much help and encouragement. I owe translations to Mr. S. E. Ievers, Mr. A. Menhennet, Mr. M. Holland, Mr. R. D. Williams, Mr. A. E. Wardman of Reading University, to Dr. J. K. Hyde of Manchester University and Mr. J. Heath of Dulwich College, and typist’s care to Mrs. M. Bettles of Oxford. Dr. M. Twyman of Reading University (now Professor of Typography) and Mr. W. K. Ford gave unstinted help with proofs and index. In the original writing I owe more than I could say to Rev. Dr. T. M. Parker. Without him nothing could have been written. To my parents I owe the opportunity to study and write. To my wife I am indebted for limitless work and support. She was the inspiration of the whole book. The 1998 text was prepared at the Monumenta Germaniae Historica Library in Munich. I am grateful for the unfailing welcome of its staff and especially the Diplom-bibliothekärin, Frau Becker, Dr. H. Schneider, Dr. M. Polock, and Dr. C. Lohmer. To Professor R. E. Lerner I owe advice and offprints, and hospitality to Professor and Mrs. P. Calmeyer. The Alexander von Humbolt Stiftung renewed my Fellowship and so financed my stay in Munich. I acknowledge here with pleasure their long-continued personal interest in their Fellows x Acknowlegements and Scholars. The Leverhulm Trust gave a helpful grant for the expenses of research and publication. I am grateful to Br. F. Edward Coughlin, OFM, and the Franciscan Institute at St. Bonaventure University, New York, for accepting this revised edition for publication and to Fr. A. Cabassi and Dr. G. L. Potetsà for suggesting a reissue. My wife worked with me on the second edition, helping at every stage. Together we completed revision in the Modern Library at St. Deiniol’s Library, Hawarden, where so much of the preliminary reading for the first edition was done. M. D. Lambert The Yews, Eastcomb, Stroud, Glos. England GL6 7DN ...