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M uch of the credit for the present form of this book must go to Rita Copeland and David Wallace who had the courage and idealism to live up to the rubric of their Minnesota Medieval Cultures Series and support new scholarship on noncanonic literatures. Rita encouraged me, at an early stage of the project, to define my audience while David pointed me in a comparatist direction. The University of Minnesota Press editors Lisa Freeman and Robin A. Moir then lent me the kind of important practical support that allowed the book a rapid transition toward completion. Finally, Anne Running has been an excellent copyeditor. Among my Slavist colleagues at Harvard University, I would like to thank William Mills Todd III for agreeing to read an earlier draft of the manuscript and for making helpful suggestions for its improvement; Michael S. Flier for his useful comments on texts and images; and Horace G. Lunt for sharing his expertise on the early Slavs and the Great Moravian Empire. I would also like to thank my readers Jan Čermák (Prague) and Eva Hahn (Munich) for their helpful and detailed comments on my manuscript. Among the many medievalist colleagues who have offered insights and suggestions over the last three years I should mention Joseph Goering, Eleazar Gutwirth, Jeffrey Hamburger, Anne Hudson, Ruth Mazo Karras, Richard Newhauser, Derek Pearsall, Ferdinand Seibt, František Šmahel, Jane H. M. Taylor, Jiří Josef Veselý, and Jan Ziolkowski. I would also like to mention the students who participated in my Survey of Czech Literature course at Harvard (1994–96). While not specialists in medieval literature, their intelligence, enthusiasm, and perspicacity have been a source of delight and stimulation. Lastly, I thank James S. Williams, who has given me so much personal support in the last few years, even from afar. I dedicate this book to him. Several chapters of Anne’s Bohemia have been read as scholarly papers or have appeared in article form. Chapter 3 was presented at the panel “Gender, Race, and Ethnicity in the Middle Ages” at the International Congress on Medieval Studies held at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo , May 1996; a reduced version of chapter 4 was read at the conference “Obscenity: Social Control and Artistic Creation in the European Middle Ages,” held at Harvard University, May 13–15, 1995, and was xv Acknowledgments ✣ subsequently published in German translation as “Frauen, Juden, und Deutsche: Aussenseiter in dem alttschechischen Unguentarius” in Bohemia 38, no. 2 (1996); a modified form of chapter 5 appeared as “Imitatio Christi: A New Perspective on the Fourteenth-Century Czech Verse Legend of Saint Procopius,” in Die Welt der Slaven 39, no. 2 (1994): 344–55; chapter 6 was read as a paper at a conference entitled “Christ among the Medieval Dominicans” at Notre Dame University, September 6–9, 1995; and part of chapter 7 was read as “The Reception of Arthurian Literature in Medieval Bohemia” at The Eighteenth International Arthurian Congress, Garda, Italy, July 21–27, 1996. Acknowledgments xvi ...

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