Acknowledgments
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
THE editor is indebted to Lesly Bratt and Christian Tappe, whose patience and deft editorial guidance ensured a successful conclusion to this project. I am appreciative of the encouragement given by my colleagues Christopher Blum and Denis Kitzinger of Thomas More College, and am especially blessed by assistance from my old comrade-in-arms, Edward Strickland who took time from his busy schedule at Christendom College to scrutinize my rendering of Saint Benedict’s Latin. Any errors that remain are due solely to the translator’s obstinacy. Finally, every good marriage is so because of a mulier fortis; my work here has been sustained and enriched by the erudition, careful reading, and excellent cooking of my wife Amy Elizabeth Fahey.