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My thanks are due to many. In particular, I wish to thank the Chapter of Worcester Cathedral for granting me a sabbatical during which I began the research that underlies the content of this book. I am immensely grateful to the Rector and Fellows of Exeter College, Oxford, for electing me to a visiting Fellowship for the period of my sabbatical. This offered me very generous and convivial hospitality. Above all, it greatly facilitated my research, and provided rich intellectual stimulus both within and beyond the College. I am very appreciative of the wise, supportive, but not uncritical friendship which both Professor Carol Harrison, of Christ Church, Oxford, and Dr Rowan Williams, Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge, have extended to me, especially as I have been writing this book. Above all, I wish to thank my family. They have been patient and encouraging, ever urging me to return to my study in the basement, or, as they termed it, the dungeon of our house. “Back to the dungeon, dungeon troll,” they would say. “The book calls.” To each and all I am most thankful.

Alvyn Pettersen

Oxford, March 2020