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My first debt is to Riccardo Cristiani, with whom many of the topics considered here were first researched, discussed, and written up, albeit in other guises.

I thank seven insightful readers who offered exceptionally useful comments on the manuscript as a whole: Christian Bailey, Naomi Honeth, Frances Freeman Paden, Pascal Porcheron, Tom Rosenwein, Michael Sherman, and Peter N. Stearns. William D. Paden has always given me much to think about, and I am grateful for his comments on a version of chapter 4.

This project went through more changes than most, and in its various forms, including this one, I would gratefully like to acknowledge the help of many friends and colleagues beyond those already mentioned: Katie Barclay, Jan Burzlaff, Angelos Chaniotis, Jennifer Cole, Matthieu Dupas, Laura Fair, Kathryn de Luna, Leslie Dossey, Annalese Duprey-Henry, Dyan Elliott, Abram Van Engen, Nicole Eustace, Elina Gertsman, Frederic Wright Gleach, Adriana Laura Guarro, Susan Karant-Nunn, David Melton, Barbara Newman, Nancy Segal, Mark Seymour, Simon Swain, Lynn M. Thomas, Fabrizio Titone, Uwe Vagelpohl, and Ilona Wysmułek.

I thank Jennifer Stegen, a truly model interlibrary-loan librarian, and I am grateful for the fruitful partnership between the libraries of Loyola University Chicago and Northwestern University, which provided me with many extraordinary resources. At Polity Press, brilliant external readers, a very helpful staff, and above all Pascal Porcheron gave me much appreciated help and encouragement.

With love I thank my family: Jess and her girls, Sophie and Natalie; Frank and Amy and their boys Joshua, Julian, and Benji; and my sister, Naomi, who not only read the book in manuscript but also faithfully sent me emails throughout the thick and thin of this project. She and her husband, Jim, tolerated with good will my chatter via FaceTime about the ever-changing kaleidoscope that was this book in progress. I dedicate the finished product to my husband, Tom. Whatever the fantasies of love may be, he is it.