Thanks are due to our many colleagues whose help made this collection possible, including Barbara Baert, David Burn, Wolfgang Marx, and Violet Soen. Financial support was provided by the FWO-Research Foundation Flanders and the Doctoral School of the Humanities and Social Sciences at KU Leuven. We have also highly appreciated the help, support, and valuable feedback from the two anonymous reviewers, the series editors Wolfgang Marx and Heather Sparling, and the Brill team, especially Ivo Romein. Our families lived with this project for a long time—to them also, our heartfelt thanks.