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Klappentext This volume surveys the crucial role of cities in shaping cultural exchange in early modern Europe. Zusammenfassung As transfer points between different economic and cultural zones! cities are crucial to shaping processes of cultural exchange. This volume compares and contrasts the spaces! sites and buildings which expressed and shaped inter-cultural relationships within the cities of early modern Europe and looks at the central role of foreigners. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. Introduction: 1. Cities and cultural exchange Derek Keene; 2. Nodes, networks and hinterlands Alexander Cowan; 3. Cities and foreigners James S. Amelang; Part II. Presence and Reception of Foreigners: 4. Introduction to Part II Marc Boone and Heleni Porfyriou; 5. The Greek diaspora: Italian port cities and London, c.1400-1700 Jonathan Harris and Heleni Porfyriou; 6. 'The city of Jews' in Europe: the conservation and transmission of Jewish culture Donatella Calabi, Dorothea Nolde and Roni Weinstein; 7. Foreigners at the Threshold of Felicity: the reception of foreigners in Ottoman Istanbul Edhem Eldem; 8. Merchants and immigrants in Hanseatic cities, c.1500-1700 Marie-Louise Pelus-Kaplan; 9. Foreign merchant communities in Bruges, Antwerp, and Amsterdam, c.1350-1650 Bruno Blondé, Oscar Gelderblom and Peter Stabel; 10. Foreign students in the city, c.1500-1700 Stefano Zaggia; Part III. Structures and Spaces of Cultural Exchanges: 11. Introduction to Part III Stephen Turk Christensen, Alex Cowan and Derek Keene; 12. Fairs as sites of economic and cultural exchange Alberto Grohmann; 13. Markets, squares, streets: urban space, a tool for cultural exchange Marc Boone and Heleni Porfyriou; 14. City courts and cultural transfer Dorothea Nolde, María José del Río Barredo and Elena Svalduz; 15. Exchanges and cultural transfer in European cities, c.1500-1700 Donatella Calabi and Derek Keene; 16. Merchants' lodgings and cultural exchange Donatella Calabi and Derek Keene; 17. Churches and confraternities Claudia Conforti, Elena Sánchez de Madariaga and James S. Amelang; Bibliography....
