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Acknowledgements
I would like to express my thanks, however haltingly and briefly, to some of the many people who have helped me, in so many different ways, to bring this work, which began as a doctoral dissertation at Oxford in the 1970s, to a slow completion. I am grateful, first of all, to the Institut de recherche et d'histoire des textes in Paris, and particularly to Pere Joseph Paramelle, SJ, of the Section grecque, for allowing me to use the Institut's photocopies of the manuscripts of Leonti us for so many years undisturbed. I am grateful, too, to all the librarians who have given me their assistance, particularly to Msgr Paul Canart and Dr Salvatore Lilla of the Vatican Library for their readiness to answer my questions about Vat. Gr. 2195 and the Columnenses back in the 1970s, and to P. Edmond Lamalle, SJ, librarian of the Jesuit Curia in Rome, and P. Mario Scaduto, SJ, of the Jesuit Historical Institute, for their help in tracing the manuscripts of Francisco Torres.
I am grateful to Miss Maryse Waegeman, of the University of Ghent, for so kindly sending me a copy of the excerpt from Leontius in Athen. 1431; to my long-time friend, Fr Joseph Munitiz, SJ, of Campion Hall, Oxford, for his encouragement and critical suggestions; and to my friend Philip Pattenden, fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge, for his constant willingness to look out for manuscripts ofLeontius while pursuing his own research. I am grateful to the late Fr Joseph Gill, SJ, a colleague at Campion Hall, Oxford, both for his good example and wise advice, and for spending so many hours in the cheerless task of proofreading my original Greek text, to save it from containing many more errors than it does. And I am grateful, too, to the Merton College Boat Club, and more recently to the Notre Dame Boxing Cub, for keeping me in good health and good spirits through the years of my research and revision. For friendship, interest, and support, however, I owe my thanks above all to the Master and Community of Campion Hall, and to my fellow Jesuits in Cambridge, Mass. and in South Bend-my "friends in the Lord" - who have made the years of work on Leontius years of human and religious growth as well.
I am grateful, too, to Prof. Giles Constable and the staff and fellows of Dumbarton Oaks, in Washington, DC, for their support when I was correcting and revising the text; to my colleagues at the Weston Jesuit School of Theology, in Cambridge, Mass., for believing that this task would come to a happy conclusion; and especially to my friend there, Fr John O'Malley, SJ, for always asking perceptive questions about Leontius. More recently, I am grateful to friends and colleagues in the Department of Theology here at Notre Dame, for their confidence and support, and to my students here over the last eighteen years, for their unfailing expressions of interest in the obscure issues of late patristic Christology. And I am grateful to a number of our doctoral students here for their patient and skilled help in putting the text of Leontius and the rest of this volume into final form: to Richard and Kelly Klee and to Robert McFadden, for their invaluable help in digitalizing the original typescript, and to my friend Fr Brian Dunkle, SJ, for lending his wise and critical eye to read the final draft. There are four individuals, however, without whom-in the hackneyed but here fully justified phrase-this edition could never have been made, and whom I want to thank especially.
The first two are my Oxford supervisors from the 1970s: Nigel Wilson, fellow of Lincoln College and a friend of many years, who guided me through Leontius's palaeographical and linguistic shoals, and who always gave unstintingly of his time and his encouragement; and the late Dr Henry Chadwick, Dean of Christ Church during my years at Oxford, who helped me past my first misgivings about undertaldng this edition, who wisely and kindly saw me through the final stages of its production, and who continued to urge me, through the years that followed, to complete its publication.
The third person who deserves mention is the late Aloys Cardinal Grillmeier, SJ, my former professor and ever-kindly mentor at the Hochshcule Skt. Georgen in Frankfurt, who awakened my interest in Leontius, and in all of patristic Christology, while I was still his student, and whose irrepressible enthusiasm and generous support continued to spur me on in the years that followed. And the fourth is the late Abbe Marcel Richard, who first actually suggested to me (over a pint of ale in an Oxford pub) that I edit Leontius's works, who put his own transcriptions and notes at my disposal, answered my uninformed questions about manuscripts and florilegia, and supported me as long as he lived with his advice, hospitality, and paternal interest. If it is appropriate for an edition also to bear a dedication, I should like to think of this one, in Leontius's words, as a A~871s; cp6.pµaKov Kai p,v17µ,ijs Eµ7TUpEuµa-a very inadequate memorial to these four great scholars and friends. University of Notre Dame Feast of St Ignatius Loyola, 2014
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