Part I. Introduction: 1. Cities and cultural exchange Derek Keene; 2. Nodes, networks and hinterlands Alexander Cowan; 3. Cities and foreigners James S. Amelang; Part II. Presence and Reception of Foreigners: 4. Introduction to Part II Marc Boone and Heleni Porfyriou; 5. The Greek diaspora: Italian port cities and London, c.1400–1700 Jonathan Harris and Heleni Porfyriou; 6. 'The city of Jews' in Europe: the conservation and transmission of Jewish culture Donatella Calabi, Dorothea Nolde and Roni Weinstein; 7. Foreigners at the Threshold of Felicity: the reception of foreigners in Ottoman Istanbul Edhem Eldem; 8. Merchants and immigrants in Hanseatic cities, c.1500–1700 Marie-Louise Pelus-Kaplan; 9. Foreign merchant communities in Bruges, Antwerp, and Amsterdam, c.1350–1650 Bruno Blondé, Oscar Gelderblom and Peter Stabel; 10. Foreign students in the city, c.1500–1700 Stefano Zaggia; Part III. Structures and Spaces of Cultural Exchanges: 11. Introduction to Part III Stephen Turk Christensen, Alex Cowan and Derek Keene; 12. Fairs as sites of economic and cultural exchange Alberto Grohmann; 13. Markets, squares, streets: urban space, a tool for cultural exchange Marc Boone and Heleni Porfyriou; 14. City courts and cultural transfer Dorothea Nolde, María José del Río Barredo and Elena Svalduz; 15. Exchanges and cultural transfer in European cities, c.1500–1700 Donatella Calabi and Derek Keene; 16. Merchants' lodgings and cultural exchange Donatella Calabi and Derek Keene; 17. Churches and confraternities Claudia Conforti, Elena Sánchez de Madariaga and James S. Amelang; Bibliography.