Acknowledgements
This book originates from a workshop entitled ‘Fictionality in Late Antique Hagiography’, which was organized by the editors and Klazina Staat in 2017. All chapters were originally presented and discussed at the workshop, with the exception of one (Matthew O’Farrell). We thank all participants and look back with gratitude at inspiring presentations and conversations. Our thanks also go to the Academia Belgica in Rome, whose beautiful venue was the setting for the workshop, and to Charles Bossu in particular for practical support.
We wish to extend our warmest thanks to Klazina Staat, who has contributed to the editorial work for this book in its early stages, and to all contributors for their work and the pleasant collaboration. We are grateful to Kristoffel Demoen and Marc Van Uytfanghe for advice, to Robbe Van de Velde for help in preparing the bibliography, to Anne Lanckriet for support with indexing, and to Anke Timmermann for proofreading and language-editing. Finally, we thank the series editors and the academic board of Mnemosyne Supplements: Late Antique Literature, and Mirjam Elbers and Giulia Moriconi at Brill Publishers for their support and interest in our work.
For both this book and the workshop from which it originates, Koen De Temmerman received generous financial support from the European Research Council under the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (Starting Grant nº 337344) and the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme (Consolidator Grant nº 819459). The book also benefitted from the Junior Postdoctoral Fellowships awarded by the Flemish Research Council (F.W.O.-Vlaanderen) to Klazina Staat (grant agreement nº 1232820N) and Julie Van Pelt (grant agreement nº 1206221N).
JVP, KDT
Ghent, May 2023