I’m happy for the opportunity, at long last, to express my gratitude to the institutions and individuals who have encouraged and underwritten my work. At the beginning of this endeavor, a research grant from the University of Maryland’s College of Arts and Humanities enabled me to consult Bodleian Library MS Digby 133 in Oxford. I am grateful to the staff at the Bodleian who assisted me in my consultation of Digby 133. At this project’s conclusion, and like many METS editors before me, I am pleased to recognize the National Endowment for the Humanities for its long support of this series.

This project has benefitted from the work of my smart and capable student research assistants at the University of Maryland: Carissa Baker, Christine Maffuccio, Maggie Ray, and Jeffrey Griswold. Gail McMurray Gibson provided astute commentary on portions of the introduction and remains my trusted fellow traveler in all things East Anglian. Emily Steiner’s seminar in medieval performance at the University of Pennsylvania test-drove an early version of the edited text; Genelle Gertz’s students at Washington and Lee University read a later version and welcomed me to talk about it.

METS staff at the University of Rochester have made major contributions to this project. I’m delighted to thank the cohort of graduate student editors who worked on producing the text of Mary Magdalene for this edition. For their ever meticulous and insightful reading of (too) many versions of this project, assistant METS editors Martha Johnson-Olin and Pamela Yee deserve my deepest thanks, as well as staff editors Leah Haught, Alison Harper, and Ashley Conklin. And it’s my great pleasure to have a new occasion to express my life-long gratitude to METS General Editor and my teacher, mentor, and friend, the incomparable Russell Peck.