Italy and Europe's Eastern Border (1204-1669)

Contents: Emanuel Constantin Antoche : La croisade de 1443 dans les Balkans. Anatomie d'un échec - Marie-Hélène Blanchet : Image de l'Union et de la croisade dans le Dialogue avec un moine contre les Latins de Théodore Agallianos (1442) - Anna Calia: The Venetian-Ottoman Peace of 1479 in the Light of Documents from the Venice State Archive - Paolo Cherubini : Un épisode peu connu de la guerre des Balkans (1469) par les Commentarii de Jacques Ammannati - Iulian M. Damian: From the 'Italic League' to the 'Italic Crusade': Crusading under Renaissance Popes Nicholas V and Pius II - Claudine Delacroix-Besnier : Rencontres entre théologiens grecs et latins et échanges culturels sous les règnes de Jean VI Cantacuzène et de Jean V Paléologue II - Bernard Doumerc : Le problème des confins en Morée vénitienne à la fin du XVe siècle - Andrea Fara: Italian Merchants in the Kingdom of Hungary in the Late Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period (XIIIth-XVIth Centuries) - Emir O. Filipovic: Ardet ante oculos opulentissimum regnum ... Venetian Reports about the Ottoman Conquest of the Bosnian Kingdom, A.D. 1463 - Christian Gastgeber: Griechischer Humanismus in der italienischen Renaissance: Aspekte eines idealisierten Kulturtransfers - Borislav Grgin: Antonio Bonfini on Dalmatia, Croatia and Slavonia in the Fifteenth Century - Günes Isiksel : La piraterie abkhaze et la réaction ottomane : une contribution au débat sur la fermeture de la mer Noire - Christian Luca: Some Families of Dragomans from the Italian-Levantine Community of Beyoglu (Pera in Constantinople). Employees of the Venetian Embassy at the Porte during the 16th-17th Centuries - Matteo Magnani: The Crusade of Amadeus VI of Savoy between History and Historiography - Serban Marin: A Venetian Chronicler in Crete: the Case of Lorenzo de' Monaci and His Possible Byzantine Sources - Gianluca Masi: Scoccibucca (Skocibuha) and Faccenda (Facenda), Two Families of Shipowners and Merchants in Ragusa (Dubrovnik) between the 16th

Iulian Mihai Damian (Accademia di Romania, Rome); researcher; main fields of research: late medieval crusading and Franciscan missions in the East.
Ioan-Aurel Pop (Romanian Academy, Center for Transylvanian Studies, Cluj-Napoca); Member of the Romanian Academy; main fields of research: medieval social structures and the relations between the Italian Peninsula and the 'East' in the Late Middle Ages and in the Early Modern Age.
Mihailo St. Popovic (Austrian Academy, Institute for Byzantine Studies, Vienna); researcher; main fields of research: history of Byzantium and South-East Europe, historical geography of the Eastern Mediterranean, HGIS and gender studies.
Alexandru Simon (Romanian Academy, Center for Transylvanian Studies, Cluj-Napoca); researcher; main fields of research: medieval geopolitics and state building in East Central Europe.