Genoa and Venice Overseas

People, Power, and Art, 13th to 16th century

Contributions by Justine Andrews Contributions by Laura Balletto Contributions by Michel Balard Contributions by Hasan Sercan Saglam Contributions by Patrick Donabédian Contributions by Antonio Musarra Contributions by Lorenzo Pubblici Contributions by Gianluca Ameri Contributions by Holger Klein Contributions by Nikolas Jaspert Contributions by Taviani Carlo Contributions by Georg Christ Contributions by Michele Bacci Contributions by Ioanna Koukouni Contributions by Nicole Kançal-Ferrari Contributions by Julian Gardner Contributions by Romedio Schmitz-Esser Contributions by Rebecca Müller Contributions by Rafał Quirini-Popławski Edited by Rebecca Müller Edited by Rafał Quirini-Popławski Series edited by Klaus Gereon Beuckers Series edited by Andreas Bihrer Series edited by Timo Felber

Book cover: Genoa and Venice Overseas

Extent: 440 pages

Publisher: Böhlau Verlag Köln

Subjects: Anthropology, Cultural Studies, Medieval Studies

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(August 2026)

ISBN: 9783412534615

6.89 x 9.65 inches

Price: $94.00

On back order

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 Krakow. The authors-historians and art historians-explore the premodern Mediterranean and Black Sea regions, focusing not only on the “”mother cities””, 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.


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 Krakow. 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.

  • Contributions by Justine Andrews
  • Contributions by Laura Balletto
  • Contributions by Michel Balard
  • Contributions by Hasan Sercan Saglam
  • Contributions by Patrick Donabédian
  • Contributions by Antonio Musarra
  • Contributions by Lorenzo Pubblici
  • Contributions by Gianluca Ameri
  • Contributions by Holger Klein
  • Contributions by Nikolas Jaspert
  • Contributions by Taviani Carlo
  • Contributions by Georg Christ
  • Contributions by Michele Bacci
  • Contributions by Ioanna Koukouni
  • Contributions by Nicole Kançal-Ferrari
  • Contributions by Julian Gardner
  • Contributions by Romedio Schmitz-Esser
  • Contributions by Rebecca Müller
  • Contributions by Rafał Quirini-Popławski
  • Edited by Rebecca Müller
  • Edited by Rafał Quirini-Popławski
  • Series edited by Klaus Gereon Beuckers
  • Series edited by Andreas Bihrer
  • Series edited by Timo Felber