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Genoa and Venice, as leading maritime powers in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea, founded numerous trading posts and “colonies”. These foundations fostered intense transfer processes, widespread mobility—far beyond elite circles—and a constant exchange of raw materials, goods, and objects. The resulting entanglement of spaces, practices, and visual cultures poses particular challenges for research. This volume brings together contributions from two conferences held in Heidelberg and Kraków. The authors—historians and art historians from different fields—explore the premodern Mediterranean and Black Sea regions, focusing not only on the “mother cities” and the comparison between them, but above all on regions often studied separately due to disciplinary divisions, political circumstances, and the linguistic diversity of the source material and literature: Eastern European realms, Byzantium, the Aegean, Cyprus, the Golden Horde and the Crimean Khanate, and the Iberian Peninsula.

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Rebecca Müller ist Professorin für Kunstgeschichte an der Universität Heidelberg, Schwerpunkt Mittelalter, mit Forschungsinteressen besonders in den Bereichen Antikenrezeption, Künstlerkonzepte sowie Objekte und Künstler in transkulturellen Dynamiken. Rafał Quirini-Popławski is Associate Professor of Medieval and Byzantine Art History at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. His research interests include late medieval art in the Mediterranean and Black Sea areas, with particular emphasis on the Genoese outposts; Romanesque art in Poland; as well as cataloguing historical monuments, both in Poland and Ukraine. Klaus Gereon Beuckers hat den Lehrstuhl für Kunstgeschichte an der Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel inne. Andreas Bihrer ist Professor für Geschichte des frühen und hohen Mittelalters sowie für Historische Grundwissenschaften an der Universität Kiel. Prof. Dr. Timo Felber lehrt Deutsche Literatur des Mittelalters und der Frühen Neuzeit an der Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel.

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