The Matter of the Page: Essays in Search of Ancient and Medieval Authors

Acknowledgments

acknowledgments Versions or portions of this book’s individual chapters have been heard by the following audiences, who are thanked collectively for their corrections and suggestions : Seminar on the History of Material Texts, University of Pennsylvania (introduction, chapters 1 and 6); Classics Colloquium, Bryn Mawr College (chapter 3); Department of Classics, UCLA (chapter 3); Classics Colloquium, Columbia University (chapters 3 and 6); “Technologies of Writing from Antiquity to Early Modern Europe,” Conference at the University of Pennsylvania, March 28–9, 2003 (chapter 4); Third Penn-Leiden Colloquium on Ancient Values, Leiden University, June 3–6, 2004 (chapter 5); “Invisible Cities,” Conference at Stanford University, February 11–12, 2005 (chapter 5); “Forms of Address,” Annual Conference of the English Institute, Harvard University, October 20–22, 2006 (chapter 1); special lecture series for the Opera Institute’s production of Monteverdi’s Orfeo, California State University, Long Beach, March 10, 2008 (chapter 1). I would also like to thank, again collectively, my wonderful colleagues at the University of California, Los Angeles, both inside and outside Classics. Many libraries have contributed to the making of this book, but I would like to extend special thanks to those of UCLA and of the American Academy in Rome. Of this book’s many single debts, the ones owed to the following require named thanks here: David Blank, Carmela Vircillo Franklin, Joseph Farrell, Sander Goldberg, Sean Keilen, Kathryn Morgan, Alex Purves, Peter Stallybrass , Mario Telò, James Thacker, and Carolyn Williams. Very special thanks to James I. Porter and to James Tatum for their tireless help and encouragement , without which this book would never have been published. I cannot b ix thank by name the careful and thoughtful anonymous readers of my manuscript , but wherever possible, I have used their comments and queries to make this a better book. I would also like to thank the editors of this series, especially Patricia Rosenmeyer, as well as senior acquisitions editor Raphael Kadushin. I should note that a shorter version of chapter 1, “The Backward Glance,” appeared with the same title in Arion 17.2 (Fall 2009). No other part of this book has been published before now. My dedicatees have shown love and friendship to an author; in the following essays, I shall try to imitate their example. x a c k n o w l e d g m e n t s b the matter of the page ...