Preface; Cultural exchange and cultural transfer in early modern Europe: a theoretical perspective and examples Bernd Roeck; 1. The Baltic ceramic market 1200-1600: measuring Hanseatic cultural transfer and resistance David Gaimster; 2. Between Italy and Moscow: cultural crossroads and the culture of exchange Evelyn Welch; 3. Netherlandish painting and early Renaissance Italy: artistic rapports in a historiographical perspective Bernard Aikema; 4. Cultural transfer between Venice and the Ottomans in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries Deborah Howard; 5. Wandering objects, migrating artists: the appropriation of Italian Renaissance art by German courts in the sixteenth century Barbara Marx; 6. The dressed body: the moulding of identities in sixteenth-century France Isabelle Paresys; 7. Clothing and cultural exchange in Renaissance Germany Ulinka Rublack; 8. Gesture and comportment: diversity and uniformity Dilwyn Knox; 9. The exchange of dance cultures in Renaissance Europe: Italy, France and abroad Marina Nordera; 10. Dancing in the Dutch Republic: the uses of bodily memory Herman Roodenburg; 11. Imaginations of overseas cultures in Western European pageants, sixteenth to seventeenth centuries Johan Verberckmoes; Bibliography.