Time to leave Seattle. It’s been a good, but busy, six weeks. I had great side trips to Vancouver (twice), Victoria, Eugene, and Columbus. University of Washington has a great geography department and it’s been good to get to know people here – as well as some well-known faculty they have some particularly impressive graduate students.

I came with a draft of the book’s chapters; I leave with a better draft of each chapter. I’ve just put all the chapters into a single word file, along with the Rousseau ‘frame’ I’ve been using to begin and end recent lectures. That’s a bit less than I think will be in the real introduction, which I expect will be a version of the ‘Land, Terrain, Territory’ piece, and I have a stack of notes for the coda. So there is still quite a lot I need to do. But it would now just about work as a book from start to finish, which is an important stage. I’ve trimmed about 10,000 words out in this draft, but single spaced at 12 point it’s still 464 pages.

While I could keep reading things for this book for ever, and still have a bunch of things I’d like to look at, I’m now down to only six references that are incomplete in what I have: one each to Boethius, Hostiensis, Baldus and Bartolus and two to Innocent IV.

Back to London tomorrow, and then driving to York, if weather permits…