USC Thesis Other. The French Romanesque portals of Moissac, Souillac and Beaulieu: a response to the papal reform movement and popular heresy. Besancon ii Acknowledgements During the course of researching and writing my dissertation, numerous individuals have been responsible for helping this project reach fruition, many of whom I will be unable to thank by name, but whom will always have my deepest gratitude.
Moreover, without the financial support of various fellowships, I would not have been able to research and write this dissertation. I would also like to extend my sincerest thanks to my professors at USC.
The debt I owe to my adviser, Carolyn Malone, cannot be adequately expressed here. Not only has Carolyn been an ideal adviser, but she has also been a wonderful friend, for which I am doubly grateful. Ann Marie and Jason were both more than generous with their time, reading drafts, providing thoughtful and thought provoking comments on my work, without which this dissertation would have been the lesser.
The alternate perspectives offered by Ann Marie and Jason challenged me to think more critically about my project and helped me to clarify my arguments. Special thanks are also owed to Dominique Iogna-Prat, who generously agreed to sponsor my Chateaubriand application. Not only was his support essential in my receiving the Chateaubriand Fellowship, but he also kindly invited me to sit in on his graduate level medieval course, exposing me to a vast array of scholarship, as well as introducing me to other French scholars and graduate students.
I am also indebted to the members of the International Medieval Society, Paris. Not only did this group give me a place to share my ongoing research with interested colleagues, but also provided me with a font of information about libraries and archives in Paris, and France more generally, which made conducting research and life in a foreign country so much easier.
