I also visited the locations of the novel. I lived in Northern England, made rambling forays across the border, talked to Cumberland “roughs” to learn their folklore; I went to Paris, Chinon, Poitiers, Marseilles, Italy and Greece, where the old Norman Empire has left its traces.
Many of my friends, colleagues and family contributed to the book both directly and indirectly: My departments at Californian Lutheran College and Santa Monica College granted me leave of absence to get the work under way; Dr. Alfred E. Longuiel, Professor of English at U.C.L.A., guided me through Chaucerian literature; then Dr. C. Warren Hollister, Professor of Medieval History at the University of California at Santa Barbara, suggested portions of the Northumberland sequence; Historian Bruce Coy read the military sections; Dorothy Seligman, Gabriel Coy, and Damiana Chavez made further valuable contributions. When the manuscript was almost finished, my agents, Richard Curtis and Susan Cohen, supplied the necessary enthusiasm and expertise to get it a proper reading. Finally, I had the great good fortune to work with a perceptive, sensitive editor in Lisa Healy.
However, it was my husband Charles A. Kaufman who provided indispensable assistance. Not only did he urge me to write and make it possible for me to do so, but he gave generously of his own professional skills to guide me through the inchoate world of writing. An author himself, he knew when to support, when to criticize, when to tell me to risk. For his patience, his intelligence, his loving tenacity, there are no words to express my gratitude to Charlie.
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