¹ Full disclosure: I participated in a conference held at the University of Oxford in March 2000, organized by Helen Tilley, the proceedings of which were the basis of this collection; my assistance is acknowledged in Tilley's introduction. That said, however, I should note that most of Tilley and Gordon's impressive array of contributors did not attend the conference. And Tilley's judgements are her own, of course, not those of her pre-publication readers.