Acknowledgements
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Acknowledgments Much of the work on this translation was carried out during the global
COVID-19 pandemic, when libraries were shut and spirits were low.
Thanks, however, to the endless patience and encouragement of Dr Mary Whitby and the editorial board of Translated Texts for Historians, we set our face against both these challenges – against the first by relying on the resources and ingenuity of our respective university libraries, which found ways to make materials available to us electronically when their doors were closed, and against the second by committing ourselves to a steady routine of volleying our drafts back and forth through e-mail, until at last the task was complete. The translation proper is the work of Calvin
B. Kendall; the introduction is largely from the pen of Faith Wallis, save for the sections on the structure of the commentary, Bede's style, his debt to the Codex Amiatinus, and the manuscripts of In Lucam, which fell to Calvin Kendall's lot. That being said, both of us read, revised, queried, and performed stylistic surgery on every word of the present volume – our third and most ambitious collaborative project for this series. We owe special debts to Dr Peter Darby of the University of Nottingham for his valuable comments on our draft Introduction, and to Dr Michael Lapidge, who read the entire typescript with scrupulous care, and proposed many improvements. Faith Wallis thanks her dear husband Kendall Wallis for his priceless services as in-house research assistant, personal reference librarian, brewer, and 'therapy human'.