Editor’s Note and Acknowledgments

This issue of Florilegium, the second of my editorship, is also die last (1 hope) of the large monographs produced annually. The journal will welcome the new millennium with two issues a year, each one smaller and more flexible than the current volume. The costs of publishing are sufficiently low that for at least a year—and possibly two or three—the charge to members of the sponsoring organisation, the Canadian Society of Medievalists/Société canadienne des médiévistes will remain the same. Institutions may see a slight rise in subscription costs, largely owing to increased postage costs. Members of the CSM/SCM without an institutional address may receive their two issues at the same time, since postage costs are likely to be higher than the costs of preparing and printing the journal. This move to biannual publication has been greatly aided by a general grant in aid of the journal recently awarded by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada. The SSHRC has also underwritten, by way of a special initiative grant, much of the cost of developing a Florilegium website, which should be accessible within a few months and will have copies of back issues loaded more gradually than some would prefer, but as rapidly as the editorial staff can manage.