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Wolff, R. L.; Hazard, H. W. (ed.) / Volume II: The later Crusades, 1189-1311
(1969)
Foreword, pp. xiii-xiv
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xiv FOREWORD Harry W. Hazard, whose more than human ability to handle detail never fails to inspire me with awe for his skill as an editor. To him we owe also the maps, the gazetteer, and the index. For myself, I have done what I could to improve the work. Professor Wolff and Dr. Hazard would join me, however, in paying chief tribute to our contributors, whose generosity and forgiveness of our sins have been an education in themselves. It is not easy to receive your manuscript back from a board of editors reduced in size (with alien material added, because otherwise it would not appear in the volume), and be told that this is the way the editors want to publish it. Certain of our contributors will understand our deep appreciation of their courtesy and forbearance. We have lost two or three contributors along the way for one reason or another, but to the stalwart crusaders in this volume who have helped us to march closer to the final goal, we would render a salute with full panoply of arms. The general structure of our projected History has been outlined briefly in the Foreword to the first volume. There remain three volumes to come, and there will be further delay in getting them out. But we will get them out, for the editors will persist regard less of the obstacles. KENNETH M. SETTON [University of Pennsylvania, 1962]
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