Acknowledgements
We would like to thank all our colleagues and contributors for their valuable work, for their dedication and professionalism in helping us put together this collection of studies, and for the patience with which they responded to our queries and demands.
The anonymous peer-reviewers offered encouraging and constructive criticism as well as important suggestions for improvement and development.
Alex Drace-Francis and Zoran Milutinović significantly supported us in making the right decisions in terms of content, argument and style. We are grateful for the time, care and attention they devoted to this project.
Ivo Romein, the Balkan Studies Library series editor at Brill, was enthusiastic about this project from the start and we owe him gratitude for managing the volume’s production with patience and tact, offering advice, support and much-needed extra time.
Also at Brill, Gera van Bedaf and the text editors’ team expertly guided a massive, complex text on the last steps of its journey from computer screen to print.
Angela Jianu would like to acknowledge the support of staff at the Library of the University of Warwick (UK), who always responded promptly to her requests for often hard to access material.
We can only hope that the volume as it stands now before our readers does justice to all these important contributions.
Angela Jianu
Violeta Barbu
January 2018