Acknowledgements

Above all, we would like to thank the scholars who have written this book for their expertise, collaboration, and extreme patience. The original idea for this Companion – when we were both located in Cambridge – came from Kate Brett at Cambridge University Press: we thank her for her inspiration and encouragement. The project was taken on in due course by Laura Morris and Alexandra Poreda, and finally brought firmly to eventual publication by Beatrice Rehl and Isabella Vitti, all through the disruptions of our own several criss-crossing transatlantic moves as well as the illnesses of a number of contributors. In the course of the preparation of the volume, one of its contracted contributors, Servais Pinckaers OP, died before his essay was complete: we would like to record our appreciation here for his scholarship on Thomas and ethics more broadly. Brian Davies OP, one of our contributors, is also the literary executor for Herbert McCabe OP, another of our contributors. He undertook the careful editing of Herbert’s text for this publication: for this, as well as the permission to publish the piece here, we are extremely grateful. We also wish to thank Pauline Matarasso for translation work en route and John Trappes-Lomax for vital assistance at the end. Any infelicity remains ours alone.