Table of Contents

Preface; Cultural exchange and cultural transfer in early modern Europe: a theoretical perspective and examples Bernd Roeck; 1. The Baltic ceramic market 1200-1600: measuring Hanseatic cultural transfer and resistance David Gaimster; 2. Between Italy and Moscow: cultural crossroads and the culture of exchange Evelyn Welch; 3. Netherlandish painting and early Renaissance Italy: artistic rapports in a historiographical perspective Bernard Aikema; 4. Cultural transfer between Venice and the Ottomans in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries Deborah Howard; 5. Wandering objects, migrating artists: the appropriation of Italian Renaissance art by German courts in the sixteenth century Barbara Marx; 6. The dressed body: the moulding of identities in sixteenth-century France Isabelle Paresys; 7. Clothing and cultural exchange in Renaissance Germany Ulinka Rublack; 8. Gesture and comportment: diversity and uniformity Dilwyn Knox; 9. The exchange of dance cultures in Renaissance Europe: Italy, France and abroad Marina Nordera; 10. Dancing in the Dutch Republic: the uses of bodily memory Herman Roodenburg; 11. Imaginations of overseas cultures in Western European pageants, sixteenth to seventeenth centuries Johan Verberckmoes; Bibliography.

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About the Author

Bernd Roeck is Professor of Early Modern History at Zurich University. His publications in English include, as an editor with Ole Peter Grell and Andrew Cunningham, Health Care and Poor Relief in 18th and 19th Century Southern Europe (2005). Herman Roodenburg is Head of the Department of Ethnology at the Meertens Institute, Amsterdam, and Professor of Cultural History at the Catholic University of Leuven. His publications in English include, as a co-editor with Jan Bremmer, A Cultural History of Humour (1996), and The Eloquence of the Body: Studies on Gesture in the Dutch Republic (2004),

Reviews

'This finely composed book contains a wealth of information not only for scholars of Renaissance and early modern studies, but for anyone interested in a Europe still under construction today.' Revue Belge de Philologie et d'Histoire