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The first edition of this volume was published in 2009, and I am delighted to launch an expanded and updated second edition (2021), A Companion to the Global Renaissance: Literature and Culture in the Era of Expansion, 1500–1700. My gratitude always to Emma Bennett, my first commissioning editor at Wiley (Blackwell), for her vision and encouragement as the project evolved. My thanks to all the authors from the 2009 edition whose updated essays will generate an expanding “conversation” with the new additional chapters.

Since 2009, it has been heartening to witness a further global “turn” in early modern studies, with an increasing emphasis on connected histories and cultural cross-pollinations beyond Europe. This second edition, I hope, will contribute to these ongoing endeavors. I am grateful to scholars who have shared this global vision. For their scholarship, friendship, conversations, comments, and input on this volume, I must thank Guido Van Meersbergen, Nandini Das, Matthew Dimmock, Ladan Niayesh, Ian Smith, Bernadette Andrea, Gerald MacLean, João Vicente Melo, Jean Howard, Mihoko Suzuki, Eva Johanna Holmberg, Abdulhamit Arvas, Colm MacCrossan, and Daniel Vitkus.

I am particularly grateful to commissioning editors at Wiley, Catriona King and Nicole Allen for believing in this second edition and helping me to develop the new proposal. Nicole’s input has also been invaluable in launching the book off the ground. Finally, I appreciate managing editor, Liz Wingett, for her assistance and advice in the production process.

At Michigan State University, my special thanks to my colleague Pete Johnston for his generosity and technical genius in preparing images for the volume. Gratitude to the Special Collections at MSU Libraries for their assistance at every stage of this project. And finally, appreciation to Sandra Beals for her wonderful, painstaking work in formatting the chapters for submission.

Thanks also to St. Catherine’s College Oxford, where I was a Visiting Fellow in the English Department, 2019 (Michaelmas Term), and during my fellowship I prepared this second edition for a new contract.

In 2009, I dedicated this book to my parents, who were global, cosmopolitan citizens of the world. I dedicate this edition to their memory.