Acknowledgements
The present volume is the result of several years of collaboration between its editors on the topic of early English homiletic literature and its sources. We are indebted to the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation for supporting this collaboration through the Anneliese Maier Research Award which Susan Irvine received in 2015, which not only enabled preliminary work on what was to become the ECHOE Project, but also allowed us to hold the 2017 conference at Göttingen where many of the contributions collected here were first presented. We are also grateful to University College London for awarding an Honorary Visiting Professorship to Winfried Rudolf from 2015 to 2020, and to the Lichtenberg-Kolleg at the University of Göttingen for awarding a research fellowship to Susan Irvine in 2017. Without such invaluable support, and the advice of many of our colleagues, ECHOE would not have become possible. The project, which was formally established in 2018 at Göttingen, currently receives funding from the European Research Council under the European Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme. The editors would also like to give thanks to Lukas Dorfbauer for sharing his discoveries of new Angers witnesses with us, to Colleen Curran, Julia Crick, and David Ganz for palaeographical advice, to Thomas N. Hall, Brandon Hawk, Paul Langeslag, Rosalind Love, and Charles D. Wright for their helpful comments and corrections, and to Amy Faulkner and Julie K. Kraft for their assistance in preparing this volume for publication.
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