Dear all,
I hope it is not considered inappropriate for me to tell the list of the book I have just published,
Invisible Weapons: Liturgy and the Making of Crusade Ideology, with Cornell UP. I write partly to advertise (the press asks us to), but mostly to thank the list - and in particular
Stan Metheny, John Dillon, and John Wickstrom, but also many others - for weighing in so reliably over the years on my numerous queries, from the liturgical form for rogation processions, to what preces are, and to many, many other question I have address to the list. This will certainly continue on.
This list has been such a gift to me. I joined in 1997 (I think), on the advice of Phyllis Roberts, when I began my dissertation research on what I thought would be the sermon on Saint Louis. I remember the day in the restaurant up at Columbia where we met so that I could ask her advice, and her advice was to join this list. I thank everyone for the lovely community. Many of the conversations I have begun here have turned into robust off-line and even in-person conversations and intellectual relationship of huge value.
