David W. Kim is a research associate at the University of Sydney and lectures at Charles Sturt University in Sydney. He is currently a visiting fellow at the University of Edinburgh's Faculty of Divinity. Stephanie L. Hathaway has published and presented papers on medieval queens and chivalry, medieval German epic, and the Saracens. Her monograph volume Saracens and Conversion: Chivalric Ideals in Aliscans and Wolfram's Willehalm is forthcoming in 2012. She is currently lecturing at the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages at the University of Oxford, UK.

• Foreword; Part I: Faith and Spirituality; 1. Thomasine Metamorphosis: Community, Text and Transmission from Greek to Coptic - Kim; 2. St Michael of Chonai and the Tenacity of Paganism - Cadwallader; 3. Medieval Persian Chivalry and Mysticism - Milani; Part II: Love and Chivalry; 4. Spiritual Chivalry in the European Court - Hathaway; 5. Humour and Sexuality - Mendez; 6. Ladies, Lovers and Lais - Stephenson; Part III: Edifice and Artifice; 7. The Urban Language of Constantinople - Fontana-Giusti; 8. Performance and Reception of Greek Tragedy in the Early Medieval Mediterranean - Brown; 9. There and Back Again: A Case Study in Circular Cross-cultural Transmission - Dawson; Conclusions; Bibliography.

David W. Kim is a research associate at the University of Sydney and lectures at Charles Sturt University in Sydney. He is currently a visiting fellow at the University of Edinburgh's Faculty of Divinity. Stephanie L. Hathaway has published and presented papers on medieval queens and chivalry, medieval German epic, and the Saracens. Her monograph volume Saracens and Conversion: Chivalric Ideals in Aliscans and Wolfram's Willehalm is forthcoming in 2012. She is currently lecturing at the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages at the University of Oxford, UK.

• Foreword; Part I: Faith and Spirituality; 1. Thomasine Metamorphosis: Community, Text and Transmission from Greek to Coptic - Kim; 2. St Michael of Chonai and the Tenacity of Paganism - Cadwallader; 3. Medieval Persian Chivalry and Mysticism - Milani; Part II: Love and Chivalry; 4. Spiritual Chivalry in the European Court - Hathaway; 5. Humour and Sexuality - Mendez; 6. Ladies, Lovers and Lais - Stephenson; Part III: Edifice and Artifice; 7. The Urban Language of Constantinople - Fontana-Giusti; 8. Performance and Reception of Greek Tragedy in the Early Medieval Mediterranean - Brown; 9. There and Back Again: A Case Study in Circular Cross-cultural Transmission - Dawson; Conclusions; Bibliography.