Blurring the boundaries : intellectual and cultural interactions between the eastern and western; Christian and Muslim worlds / Claire Norton -- Sharing a taste? material culture and intellectual curiosity around the Mediterranean, from te eleventh to the sixteenth century / Anna Contadini -- The Lepanto paradigm revisited : knowing the Ottomans in the sixteenth century / Palmira Brummett -- The role of the book in the transfer of culture between Venice and the eastern Mediterranean / Deborah Howard -- The Reception of the Venetian ambassadors in Damascus : dating, meaning and attribution / Caroline Campbell -- Giacomo Gastaldi's maps of Anatolia : the evolution of a shared Venetian-Ottoman cultural space? / Sonja Brentjes -- Turning a deaf ear / Owen Wright -- Old and new demarcation lines between Christian Europe and the Islamic Ottoman Empire : from Pope Pius II (1458-1464) to Pope Benedict XVI (2005-2013) / Zweder von Martels -- Turco-Graecia : German humanists and the end of Greek antiquity : cultural exchange and misunderstanding / Asaph Ben-Tov -- Positive views of Islam and of Ottoman rule in the sixteenth century : the case of Jean Bodin / Noel Malcolm -- Binding relationships : Mamluk, Ottoman and Renaissance book-bindings / Alison Ohta -- Ottoman textiles in European markets / Suraiya Faroqhi -- Mehmed II as a patron of Greek philosophy : Latin and Byzantine perspectives / Anna Akasoy.