Trading tongues: merchants, multilingualism, and medieval literature

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This book could not have come into being without the help of many other people. I would first like to thank Malcolm Litchfield at The Ohio State University Press and Ethan Knapp for enthusiastically supporting this project and providing a venue for this work. I also extend my thanks to an anonymous reader and Christopher Cannon, who offered insightful comments on an earlier manuscript and its subsequent revision. I owe a particular debt of gratitude to Stephanie A. V. Gibbs Kamath and Cristina
more » ... angilinan for reading multiple drafts of this book and giving thoughtful feedback at critical junctures. I would also like to thank Eugene O'Connor for his careful copyediting of the final manuscript and his helpful responses to some of my own readings of Latin poetry. For guiding me through the dissertation project that launched this book, I extend my sincere thanks to my advisor and mentor, David Wallace; the other members of my dissertation committee, Rita Copeland and Emily Steiner, were generous and attentive readers. Kevin Brownlee and Peter Stallybrass provided welcome feedback on chapter drafts, as did members of the Penn Medieval/Renaissance Reading Group. My graduate studies were supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in Humanistic studies from the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation and the Benjamin Franklin Fellowship from the University of Pennsylvania. ix A acknowledgments x • acknowledgments Support from other institutions played a key role in transforming the dissertation into a book. Several of my research trips to the British Library and the National Archives at Kew were funded by grants from the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences at The George Washington University. Travel to the Guildhall Library, London Metropolitan Archives, and King's Lynn Borough Archives was facilitated by a Summer Stipend from the National Endowment for the Humanities; I would like to thank archivist Susan Maddock for her guidance and helpful hints while I was consulting the collections at Lynn. In addition to these awards, I also held a Short-Term Research Fellowship at the Folger Shakespeare Library, where I completed my work on the Caxton, Kempe, and merchant miscellany chapters. Members of the Folger community who were especially helpful during this stage in the project include Sarah Werner and Georgianna Ziegler. Of course, I owe tremendous gratitude to my departmental colleagues at The George Washington University. First and foremost I recognize Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, an encouraging and supportive colleague since my arrival at GW, who offered feedback on chapters in various stages. Gayle Wald very kindly read the introduction and coda to this book at a later stage. I am very fortunate to work alongside scholars whose transnational, comparative, and interdisciplinary interests continue to inspire me:
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