Acknowledgements

We are grateful to the authors, who also served as community reviewers. Only your interdisciplinary dedication, collaboration, and motivation have made our collection possible. Your kind feedback and positive spirits along the past three years and your cooperative and willing attitude kept us going – in spite of the numerous obligations and challenges that come with editing a large and comprehensive volume. We owe our deepest gratitude to Caroline Duchow: Her tireless efforts, flawless bookkeeping, and thorough management were essential to the continuous and well-timed production process and kept editors, authors, and the publisher at pace. We wish to thank three anonymous reviewers for understanding and sharing the vision of our original book proposal to Cambridge University Press and for providing great encouragement and support in ironing out the wrinkles of our original idea. At the Press, we thank Stephen Acerra, Rowan Groat, Neema Jayasinghe, Lisa Carter, Gabriel Sam Anthony, and Pete Gentry for their readiness to host us, their flexibility during the production process, and their support in getting us organized. Finally, we would like to thank the Max Planck Society for providing Open Access funding, and the German Research Foundation and the University Library Konstanz for also financing our endeavor.