The most important acknowledgment is to the Arts and Humanities Research Council for its enormous generosity; under its Large Research Grants award it funded the project as a whole and then the production of this website (and associated conference) under its Supplementary Pilot Research Dissemination award, as well as a period of AHRC Research Leave in September to December 2006, which enabled the Project Director to oversee the design of this website and finish the project as a whole. The Project Director would also like to extend gratitude to the University of Hull for periods of teaching remission during the duration of the project.
Particular gratitude is due to the librarians and archivists at the various Cambridge colleges for their interest in the project and for facilitating access to and the digitisation of the materials presented here. Warm thanks are due to Gill Cannell, The Parker Library, Corpus Christi College; Candace Guite and Ann Keith, Christ's College; Aude Fitzsimons and Sarah Anderson, The Pepys Library, Magdalene College; Jonathan Harrison and Allen Purves, St John's College; Nicholas Rogers, Sidney Sussex College; and Mark Statham, Gonville and Caius College. In addition formal thanks should be offered to the Masters and Fellows of all these colleges for granting permission to reproduce the images here. Gratitude is also due to Cambridge University Library, particularly to the Keeper of Western Manuscripts, Patrick Zutshi, for his support, and to the incomparable Godfrey Waller, Superintendent of the Manuscripts Reading Room, for all his help. Formal acknowledgement should also be made to Patricia Killiard, Head of Electronic Services and Systems Services at the University of Cambridge, for granting permission to reproduce the digitised images from the University Library manuscripts, and to Cambridge University Library for allowing their presentation on this website. In addition thanks are due to Melvin Jefferson, Conservation Officer, Cambridge Colleges Conservation Consortium, for his help and interest in the project. Special thanks are also due to Gerry Bye and his colleagues in Cambridge University Library Imaging Services; it has been an absolute pleasure to work with them as they have been so helpful and responsive throughout. The same may be said of Ann Robinson, Archives Assistant at Durham University Library, who so kindly arranged the digitisation of the image of the medieval preacher from John Mirk's Festial used throughout this website, and gratitude is due to Durham University Library for permission to reproduce it here.
Gratitude is also due to Brepols, the publishers of the printed volumes, especially Simon Forde, for permission to reproduce the Sample Sermons here. In addition thanks are due to the members of our international Advisory Board, in particular Oliver Pickering and Sue Powell, for all their help and advice during the duration of the project.
However, after the AHRC, the greatest debt of gratitude is due to Mark Waudby, the website programmer and designer; without his overwhelming tenacity and intelligent creative flair none of this would have been possible.
