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Acknowledgments In researching and writing on rough tolerance, I have experienced far more of the tolerance than of the roughness. My deepest debts are the earliest. Julia Smith introduced me to medieval history at Trinity College, and taught me how to read primary sources critically. At Princeton University , I had the good fortune to work with Peter Brown, whose generosity and kindness, shared by his wife Betsy, sustained me through the many ups and downs of graduate life. His work embodies an ideal few can achieve. William Chester Jordan showed me how to be both a teacher and a scholar, and how to approach both the past and other scholars with respect and an open mind. Michael Gaddis, Jennifer Hevelone-Harper, Emily Kadens, Anne Lester, Jarbel Rodriguez, Lisa Bailey, and Holly Grieco provided social and intellectual support during the research for this book. In particular, Kim Bowes, Meri Clark, Jaclyn Maxwell, and Kevin Uhalde made those years among the most stimulating and happiest of my life. The support of the staff of Dumbarton Oaks Research Library, in particular Irene Vaslef, was invaluable. The director , Alice-Mary Talbot and the other junior fellows—Cecily Hilsdale, Sarah Brooks, Warren Woodfin, and Elena Boeck—created an atmosphere of collegiality and hard work. Sy Gitin and the staff of the Albright Institute in Jerusalem opened up a world for me that straddled walls and borders, and provided crucial time for reflection on my approach to Syrian and Palestinian history, as did a generous one-month NEH fellowship at the Vatican Film Library at St. Louis University. My colleagues at Dartmouth College in the Religion Department welcomed me into their community and made room for a historian among scholars of religion. Their influence can be seen throughout this book. Cecilia Gaposchkin welcomed me to Dartmouth, and strengthened my book in the course of many enjoyable conversations. The staff of Baker-Berry Library has been tireless in finding and copying nineteenth-century editions of Armenian texts for me, as well as other equally frustrating tasks. Tia Kolbaba, Carole Hillenbrand, Edward Peters, Jonathan Riley-Smith and the anonymous outside reader for the press have all given valuable comments, which I have tried to incorporate into the book. The errors that remain indubitably my own. Finally, my thanks go to the American Academy of Rome, particularly to the director Carmela Vircillo Franklin, where I have completed the final draft of the manuscript. The financial support of many institutions has been instrumental in my ability to complete this project. I must thank Princeton University, the Department of History, the Program in the Ancient World, the Group for the Study of Late Antiquity, and the Center for the Study of Religion for earlier financial support. Funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities , Dumbarton Oaks Research Library, W. F. Albright Institute, and American Academy of Rome supported writing the book. Not least has been the support of my family—my parents Mike and Annie Laurie, my sister Amanda, and my aunt and uncle David and Mary Ann Kenedy. Their kindness , joy, and love have been with me every day. 272 Acknowledgments ...

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