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It is a pleasure to be able to thank those who have helped make this book possible. My greatest intellectual debt is to my teachers. A course with Jaroslav Pelikan that I took as an undergraduate first sparked my interest in medieval history. In graduate school, over lunches at the Institute for Advanced Study, Giles Constable helped me think in new ways about medieval religious life. Drawing on his own experience of writing the biography of a much more famous bishop, Peter Brown helped me frame difficult conceptual issues. Anthony Grafton gave careful readings of my drafts and wisely encouraged me to broaden my horizons by considering parallel examples outside France and in different historical periods. Most of all, I owe an immeasurable debt of gratitude to my adviser, William Chester Jordan, who has been exceptionally generous over the years in the many ways he has provided instruction and guidance. His own example as a scholar has served as an inspiration. Research has been generously supported by the Department of History at Princeton University, the Chateaubriand Foundation, and Denison University . Two of the chapters of this book appeared in earlier forms. Earlier versions of chapter 1 appeared in the Revue Mabillon 12 (2001) as “The Formation of a Thirteenth-Century Ecclesiastical Reformer: Eudes Rigaud and the Franciscan Studium in Paris” and, under a similar title, in Medieval Education , ed. Ronald B. Begley and Joseph W. Koterski, S.J. (New York: Fordham University Press, 2005). An earlier version of chapter 7 was published in the Journal of Ecclesiastical History 56, no. 3 (2005), as “A ThirteenthCentury Franciscan Money Manager: Archbishop Eudes Rigaud of Rouen, 1248–1275.” I wish to thank the courteous and helpful librarians and archivists at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, the Institut de Recherche et d’Histoire Acknowledgments des Textes in Orléans and Paris, the Archives de la Seine-Maritime in Rouen, the municipal library of Arras, Princeton University’s Firestone Library , the Princeton Theological Seminary’s Speer Library, Yale University’s Sterling Memorial Library, Columbia University’s Butler Library, the New York Public Library, the Library of Congress, the Ohio State University’s Thomson Library, and Denison University’s Doane Library. This book benefited from the input of my fellow graduate students in medieval history at Princeton. I also wish to thank several colleagues at other institutions: Nicole Bériou, Marielle Lamy, Alain Boureau, Katherine Jansen, and Paul Freedman. I owe a special debt of gratitude to the anonymous readers for Cornell University Press for reviewing the manuscript so thoroughly and expertly. I’m also grateful to John Ackerman, director of the Press, for his encouragement. At Denison University, I am fortunate to be surrounded by wonderfully supportive colleagues. Meghan Vesper helped with the preparation of the bibliography. I also offer warm thanks to a number of close friends, now in different parts of the country, who have patiently watched this book come to fruition: Reinier Leushuis, Samuel and Elizabeth Dyson, Richard Bennett , Deborah Peikes, and Arnold Franklin. Finally, I wish to thank my family, and in particular, my parents, Toni and David Davis, for their unfailing love and moral encouragement. For many years, my father has shared with me the joys of historical study, and it was especially meaningful to be completing this book at the same time he was finishing a book. I could never have written this book without the loving support of my wife, Alexandra Schimmer. I have often relied on her wise counsel and expert editorial skills. She has lived with the “holy bureaucrat” for a long time and joined me in retracing some of the archbishop’s travels to abbeys and churches in the hinterlands of Normandy. This book is for her. x Acknowledgments ...

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