Acknowledgments
The editors would like to thank the contributors to this volume for the stimulating cooperation, the anonymous peer-reviewers for their helpful comments, the staff at Brill for their kind and generous assistance, and Tom Becker, Felix Bohlen, Anika Hornik, Laura Ostermann, Lea Wallraff, and Tobias Wilke for their editorial help. Christian Schwermann was supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG, Project No. 390683433) and by the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies (BCDSS).
The infelicities that remain are our own responsibility.