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A C K N O W L E D G M E N T S The editors wish to express their deep gratitude to the following persons: Ed Haymes, Jim Walter, and Frank Gentry, for their readings of the manuscript and for their insightful commentary; Dr. Armin Schlechter, director of the Department of Manuscripts at the University of Heidelberg, for his help in obtaining a reproduction of the portrait of Hartmann von Aue in the Manesse manuscript; Stefanie Bluemle, for assistance with the bibliography; Christine Vivian, for her assistance with every stage of the manuscript; and Peter J. Potter of Penn State University Press, for his support of the project. ...

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