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ac k now l e d g m e n t s I want to begin by thanking Robert Hanning, my mentor and friend, for his constant, expert intellectual guidance and boundless support for the research and writing of this book. He, Robert Stein, and Margaret Pappano provided invaluable early support and direction for the project through insightful readings and provocative questions. Paul Strohm and Joan Ferrante also shared their expert commentary on many of its chapters. I am deeply grateful for the close reading and feedback provided on the manuscript in its late stages by John Ganim, Brenda Deen Schildgen, Sharon Kinoshita, and Patricia Ingham . I want to thank San Francisco State University for funding a Presidential Fellowship in 2007–8 that allowed the book to take its current form. At SFSU, I have been blessed with the personal and intellectual support of my wonderful colleagues in the Department of Comparative and World Literature, Ellen Peel, Dane Johnson, and Chris Weinberger. A vibrant junior faculty reading group at SFSU, including Jillian Sandell, Mohammad Salama, Christopher Weinberger , Laura Garcia-Moreno, Gillian McIntosh, and Kasturi Ray, provided meaningful and detailed comments on each of the book’s chapters as well as perspective on the project’s potential from those trained outside medieval, European, and literary studies. Dean Paul Sherwin supported my research at every juncture, not least through his intimate knowledge of the book’s stages of development and his detailed and insightful commentary on each of its chapters. I want to thank the two anonymous readers at the University of Pennsylvania Press for their deep and engaged readings of the book manuscript and for comments that greatly improved the final shape and arguments of the book. I thank Jerry Singerman, Senior Humanities editor at Penn, for his expert guidance and navigation of the project through the Acknowledgments 202 publication process and for his consummate professionalism throughout . I also thank Caroline Winschel, Noreen O’Connor-Abel, Melissa Marshall, Sara Davis and the entire Penn Press team, along with managing editor Tim Roberts and copyeditor Robert Milks of the Mellon Modern Language Initiative, all of whom so expertly brought the book to press. Earlier versions of Chapters 3 and 4 appeared in New Medieval Literatures 10 (2008): 87–114, and Exemplaria 22.3 (2010): 177–99, respectively, and I thank the journals for allowing me to publish them in revised form here. I have been the beneficiary of wonderful and sustaining friendships through the years of this book’s making, especially those of Mara de Gennaro, Elizabeth Weinstock Phillips, and Ruchi Chaturvedi, all of whom have provided me with intellectual, moral, and emotional support without which I would have faltered. I could not have embarked on the academic life without the unending stability and support of my parents, Mehdi and Moloud Khanmohamadi, whose practicality , work ethic, and love of vocation still serve as my abiding model. I thank my sister Azin for her constant support through the long path to this book, and my brother Ali for his intellectual camaraderie in literary study. I thank and cherish my husband, Amit, and our two jewels, Saurab and Sabina, for the daily joys that have nourished this book and made writing it worthwhile. This book is dedicated to my father, for the many gifts he gave me freely, not least his playful love of tradition and words. ...